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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. One of the guards being thrashed in “The Thrasher” tells K. that “it’s a tradition that” what “goes to the guards”?
2. The defendant that K. speaks to in the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” says he made several applications for evidence to be produced in his case when?
3. What does K. do before leaving Fraülein Bürstner’s room in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
4. When Fraülein Bürstner looks around her room for any signs of disorder after returning home, she remarks that what “have been messed up” in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
5. What is K.’s first name in the novel?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the people in the courtroom situated in “The First Hearing”? How is this arrangement symbolic?
2. What is Josef K.’s central plight in “The Arrest”? How does he go about achieving his goal?
3. How is K.’s resistance to the system perceived in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
4. Who is Fraülein Bürstner? How is her character described in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
5. How is the Examining Magistrate described in “The First Hearing”? What does he ask K.?
6. What does K. find at the address for the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
7. What does Franz say when he grovels to K. for help in “The Thrasher”?
8. How are the Examining Magistrate’s books described in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”? What happens to the Usher’s Wife in the chapter?
9. How is K.’s behavior toward Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” relative to his actions as a whole in the novel?
10. What information has K. learned about his coming hearing in the opening of “The First Hearing”? How did he gain this information?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the realistic elements of the court system depicted in The Trial. In what ways is Kafka’s depiction realistic in relating the intricacies of the legal system of his time? How did the buildup toward World War I influence the way courts were held during the period in which the novel was written?
Essay Topic 2
Define “narrative point of view” in literature and identify the narrative style in The Trial. Is the narrative of the story related from a first, second or third person narrator? Is the story told in present or past tense? What effects do these choices have on the reader?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the character of Frau Grubach in the novel. How old is Frau Grubach? Why does she “depend on” K.? How much money do you think she’s borrowed from him? Why?
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