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The Trial, Franz Kafka

1. The first indication Mr. K had that something strange had happened that
morning was:

a) Having strangely crossed paths with a man who warned him about his possible
arrest.
b) That his landlady, Mr. Grubach, had not brought him breakfast.
c) Being led around the back of the house he lived in.
d) See three men at the window of the front building watching him.
e) Meeting a strange nurse who suddenly fell in love with him.

2. One of the things that surprises K, at first, about the room next to his is:

a) Which seemed to have more free space than usual.

b) Have more furniture than usual.
c) Being connected by a secret hallway to his room.
d) Have a huge lamp in the center.
e) Appear to be completely abandoned.

3. The reason why Mr. K is not initially informed about his arrest is that:

a) The process with which he is accused is promoted by a religious sect.

b) The lover he had had accused him of being a bigamist.
c) Do not hinder the process due to research errors.
d) The guards are not authorized to reveal the reason.
e) The lawyer initially told him that he should remain silent.

4. What is most striking about the guards is:

a) Have identified themselves as federal government agents.

b) Have strange badges and uniforms.
c) The unrestricted trust they have towards their superiors.
d) Have little trust in your superiors and question all decisions.
e) Be heavily armed to avoid any escape attempt.

5. Titorelli, is:

a) A court painter.
b) The clerk of the court.
c) The actuary who accuses K.
d) Who conspired against K.
e) An agent who frames K.

6. The arrest of Mr. K:

a) Prevents you from fully fulfilling your work obligations.

b) It takes place in a prison where he finds other inmates convicted for the same
cause.
c) It does not prevent you from fulfilling your job duties.
d) It occurs just at a time when his landlady was with the people who were
watching in the opposite room.
e) It never happened, since he was innocent.

7. The exceptions to the routine that the protagonist carries out with the bank
director are given by:

a) His old habit of going to the theater on Fridays.

b) Go fishing in a lake away from the city.
c) Walking long distances through the park.
 d) Excursions with the car or going to dinner at your villa.
e) Walking around in your shirt sleeves in your office.

8. Mrs. Grubach's opinion of Mr. K is that:

a) He has always been a delinquent tenant.

b) He has never loved him since he has always behaved badly.
c) She doesn't know him in the slightest, trying not to get involved in the process.
d) He must be a very skilled criminal.
e) He is your best and most beloved tenant.

9. The substantial difference that Mr. K establishes between the bank and his
house is:

a) His life has always been questioned for being unfaithful.

b) His sexual debauchery, since he has always had multiple partners.
c) In the bank he has never behaved like a despot, however his life has always
been linked to despotism.
d) That in the bank he is always prepared and in his life he is always unprepared.
e) His home life has always been delinquent and at the bank he has always made
enemies.

10. The help that the court painter can give K consists of:

a) Being able to get him out of jail and take him out of the country.
b) Being able to postpone or suspend the process.
c) Investigate the truth of your case.
d) Defend him in the allegations.
e) Intervene the files.

11. One of the things that Mrs. Grubach finds unpleasant, with respect to Miss
Bürstner, is:

a) Who never pays the rent on time.

b) Let her have a tedious and sad life, since that makes her restless.
c) Having a dark past and not being able to take care of your child.
d) Being pregnant and still wanting to conquer K.
e) Having seen her twice with a different man in secluded streets.

12. The dilemma presented to Mr. K, regarding the children he saw on his way to
the courtroom was:

a) That they were pure girls and that they were considered beggars by K.
b) That they had no scruples towards the defendants.
c) That if I had to go again, I would have to bring candy to win them or a cane to
beat them.
d) Do not feel indulgence for those condemned to the process.
e) Feeling like they were the only light on their gloomy path.

13. Mr. K's first impression of the people in the room was:

a) Feel contempt for their sad lives.

b) They are easy people to win over.
c) Feel them friendly.
d) Not recognizing them given the impression he caused in the room.
e) To think they were fools to consider him guilty of something he hadn't done.

14. According to his statement before the judge, Mr. K stated that he was:

a) The first manager of a large bank.

b) An illustrious merchant of the city.
c) The nephew of an influential person.
 d) A calm and serene guy.
e) Have acted decisively regarding his crime.

15. According to Mr. K's statement, the purpose of the mission carried out by the
bank employees during his arrest was:

a) Seek compassion from all those who witnessed the process.

b) Indicate him as a criminal to prevent the crime from being repeated.
c) Spread the news of the arrest and damage Mr. K's reputation.
d) Coerce justice to indict him as soon as possible.
e) Influencing everyone to distance themselves from K.

16. One of the questions that Mr. K has about justice is:

a) That he acted in accordance with humanitarian principles, protecting civil rights.

b) His balance against the arguments he presented, in such a way that the
principle of legality could not be questioned.
c) That he acted in accordance with the law.
d) That it is typical of the type of justice applied to him that he is condemned as
innocent, as well as ignorant.
e) Be a protector of the principle of jurisprudence and legality.

17. One of the forms of revenge that Mr. K elucidates is:

a) Influencing the judge's hierarchical superiors to dismiss him for being unfair.
b) Reach out to the president and denounce the injustice to which he was
subjected.
c) Take away the woman who cleaned the session room.
d) Call a friend who was the Minister of Justice and tell him how flawed the
procedure was.
e) Kill the judge for his injustice and flee to France.

18. It is deduced from the attitude assumed by the characters that they are:

a) Powerless against the judicial power.

b) Active against criminal injustice.
c) Determinants against the process through their arguments.
d) Promoters of retrograde justice and defender of Human Rights.
e) Correctly executed.

19. One of the characteristics of the accused according to the Usher is:

a) His nobility.
b) The sensitivity that invades them.
c) The lack of values.
d) The poverty in which they find themselves.
e) Be all guilty of a crime.

20. One of the characteristics of the process, according to the Usher, is:

a) That the processes are practiced protecting natural rights.

b) That no process is conducted if there is no prospect of success.
c) The grounds for accusation are objective.
d) No one is subjectively blamed.
e) Arbitrariness does not occur in criminal cases.

21. The consequence of Mr. K's statement before the judge is:

a) That Franz and Willem are punished with lashes.

b) Having blamed the judge for prevarication.
c) Having ended with the expulsion of the judge.
 d) Let the Supreme Court intervene in the matter.
e) That K's uncle didn't want to help him.

22. The person who informed Uncle Albert about Mr. K's trial was:

a) Emma.
b) Elsa.
c) Huld.
d) Block.
e) Leni.

23. The greatest fear that uncle expresses to Mr. K is that:

a) Be sentenced to death.
b) Eliminate K and all his relatives with him.
c) The sentence is greater than 10 years.
d) Have a nephew to disown for his crime.
e) Her nephew cannot help Ema at the Institute.

24. Uncle Carl K is who:

a) He reveals the truth about the murder of K's secretary.

b) He denounces the reasons why Leni has conspired against K.
c) Get Mr. K to take charge of your process.
d) He suggests that K hire an undercover agent to discover the homicide.
e) He pays the judge to annul the process, and K to flee out of the country.

25. The advice that Leni gives him about K's process is:

a) Let him be inflexible since he is correct in stating that he is innocent.

b) Always have the priest's advice at hand.
c) Don't be so inflexible, because there is no defense against the judiciary.
d) Never say how the crime occurred since this would incriminate you.
e) Of a credible alibi even when he is innocent.

26. Mr. K worked at:

a) A court.
b) The government secretariat.
c) The Parlament.
d) A bank.
e) A warehouse.

27. When arrested, Mr. K:

a) He knows that he has been blamed for the murder of a person.

b) He does not know the reasons for his arrest.
c) He knows that he will be promptly condemned.
d) He is accused of being the perpetrator of a robbery.
e) He is told that he has time to escape.

28. The criticism that Uncle Albert makes to Mr. K regarding Leni is:

a) That she has seriously damaged her cause by hiding with that “dirty thing”,
since she is the lawyer's lover.
b) Give him encouragement with Leni, since through her they can speed up the
process.
c) Instruct him to influence Leni, since she is the one who framed him.
d) That he has sunk deeper into his clumsiness, since the girl has accused him of
abuse.
e) Tell her that she is a good girl since she has been with the lawyer for many
years and needs a good man.
29. One of the aspects that work against Mr. K's process is:

a) Their negligence in the process.

b) Having arrived early to the first hearing.
c) Have enemies in the Ministry of Justice.
d) Everyone must be aware of the process and that it has been made public.
e) The lack of publicity during the process.

30. What is stated in the text regarding the defense is that:

a) It must be done in person

b) It does not imply the need to have a lawyer.
c) The law did not allow defense, it only tolerated it.
d) The arguments must be brought by qualified lawyers.
e) It's only for those who have money.

31. Fräulein Elsa, was:

a) A bank executive.
b) The secretary of the court in which the process is carried out.
c) A prostitute whom K visits.
d) Mr. K's landlady.
e) The woman who accused him of the crime of homicide.

32. The main protagonist is:

a) The Guardian.
b) The landlady.
c) Mr. K.
d) The priest.
e) It cannot be determined.

33. One of the peculiarities of the defense during the process is that:

a) The rule is that a statement is never given without an attorney present.

b) Interrogations are of no use in court.
c) As a general rule, the defense could not be present during interrogations.
d) The law does not allow interrogations as a means of proof.
e) The evidence is given at the first hearing.

34. One of the criticisms that the book raises about the lower ranks of the
judicial organization is that:

a) They are not vulnerable to bribery by the accused.

b) They were not entirely perfect, they were corrupt and easily forgot the
performance of duty.
c) They had a lot of work so they neglected their work.
d) They were liable to be punished if they did not blame a person daily.
e) They owed a lot of money to the state and that's why they had to work for these
secret courts.

35. The deputy director of the bank always presents himself as:

a) A friend of Mr. K.
b) The only person who knows the reasons for Mr. K.'s arrest.
c) Rival of Mr. K.
d) The person who conspired against Mr. K's secretary.
e) A character with no relevance to the process of K's secretary.
36. The response that Mr. K gets when he tries to speed up the procedure is that:

a) With good arguments he could reach a real acquittal.

 b) He had to blame himself and think that all the facts for which he was accused
were real.
c) It would go faster if he had approached the lawyer at the right time.
d) You should never go to a lawyer immediately without knowing the reason for
your case.
e) He should try to influence the people around the judges and never approach
them for this purpose.

37. The way in which the bank's client manufacturer finds out about Mr. K's
situation is:

a) Through a hunchbacked girl.

b) Through a painter called Titorelli.
c) Because of a comment from Ema.
d) Because Rudy Block has told him about it.
e) K's landlady mentioned the process to him.

38. The painting that Titorelli was working on, when he met with K, represented:

a) Justice and error.

b) Love and poverty.
c) Honor and tranquility.
d) Justice and victory.
e) Justice and process.

39. The options that Titorelli presents to Mr. K are:

a) Infiltrate courts and steal files.

b) Buy the files and destroy them in the fire.
c) Achieve real, apparent and indefinite extension absolution.
d) Reaching the extension only, since acquittal was impossible.
e) He does not present any solution since he does not know anyone who can help
him.

40. The royal absolution consists of:

a) Prolong the process forever in its first phase.

b) Make the entire process disappear by destroying everything.
c) Advance the process and achieve partial freedom.
d) It requires continuous administrative processing, to the supreme courts, returns
to the lower ones, and oscillates between one and the other with more or less
fluidity.
e) Coerce a judge so that the process never reaches other instances.

«Before the Law there is a guardian who protects the entrance door. A man from
the countryside approaches him and asks for permission to access the Law. But
the guard says that at that moment he cannot allow him entry. The man reflects
and asks if he can come in later.

41. The previous text is related to the interview that Mr. K has with:

a) A watchman.
b) Emma.
c) Rudy Block.
d) A priest.
e) A judge.

42. According to the book, the above text represents a:

 a) The strict sense of procedural justice.
b) Mr. K's deception regarding the law.
c) A chimera about the criminal process.
d) A utopia regarding procedural contingency.
e) The executive merit of the sentences.

43. In the end:

a) He is acquitted with the help of his uncle.

b) He must break away from his captors.
c) Mr. K lets one of his guards stick a knife into his heart and finish the process.
d) He is sentenced to death.
e) He is an out-of-town expatriate.

44. One of the qualities of the deputy director of the bank is that:

a) He was a very good friend of K.

b) He felt a great rivalry towards K.
c) He simply secretly admired K.
d) He limited himself to coercing judges to accuse K.
e) It is claimed that he was the one who involved K in the process.

Contextual vocabulary.
Read the following paragraphs and then answer:

K thought he was entering an assembly. An agglomeration of the most disparate

people ––no one paid attention to whoever entered–– filled a medium-sized room with
two windows, which was surrounded, almost at the height of the ceiling, by a gallery
that was also completely occupied and where people They could only remain bent over,
with their heads and backs touching the ceiling. K, for whom the air was too
suffocating , went out again and said to the woman, who had probably misunderstood
him:

45. Agglomeration . 46. Disparate . 47. Suffocating.

a) Crush. a) Different. a) Dense.

b) Crowd. b) Indifferent. b) Torrid.
c) Apportionment. c) Simile. c) Thick.
d) Distribution. d) Analogous. d) Coagulant.
e) Spill. e) Comparable. e) Hazy.

This response aroused such sincere laughter on the right side of the room that
K had to laugh too. People rested their hands on their knees and were so
agitated that they seemed to be in the grip of a serious coughing fit. Some in
the gallery also laughed. The investigating judge, deeply angry, as he was
probably powerless against those below, tried to make amends with those in
the gallery. He jumped up, threatened the gallery, and his eyebrows rose thick
and black above his eyes.

48. Prey. 49. Helpless . 50. Make amends .

a) Lure. a) Feble. a) Recover.

b) Part. b) Energetic. b) Dress up
c) Dam. c) Swain. c) Getting even.
d) Victim. d) Furtive. d) Brag.
e) Object. e) Unscathed. e) Annoy.