The Refusal - Kafka

Who is in charge of the little town?

• The colonel

• The soldiers

• Donald Trump

• Joe Biden

Where does the town not get much news from

• The frontier

• The capital

All of the following describe the town EXCEPT

• poor

• desolate

• fun

• isolated

The highest official in this little town is the ___________________.

• Soldiers

• Narrator

• Chief Tax Collector

The narrator says, "The present one is an old man; I've known him or years, because he was already a colonel when I was a child." Based on this sentence, we can infer that the narrator is....

• a child

• an adult

According to the narrator, the soldiers speak a different dialect that the townspeople do not really understand. This makes the townspeople fear them even more.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Whenever the soldiers come to the town, the townspeople are very quiet and scared.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The narrator discusses his memory of ......

• The time a man from the delegation requested a year's tax exemption.

• The time a man from the delegation attacked the colonel.

The man's request (petition) for a tax exemption was....

• accepted

• refused

What was the crowd's reaction to the refusal of the request/petition?

• anger

• relief