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What does the supervisor allow Josef K. to do after his arrest?
What do Franz and Willem do with K.'s breakfast?
Where does K. meet the supervisor?
What is missing from the telephone summons to K.'s first hearing?
What occupation does the examining magistrate wrongly assign to K.?
What reveals the hearing audience's shared connection to the court?
What does K. do after discovering the audience's badges?
What does K. find when he returns to court without a summons?
Who carries the usher's wife away?
Why do two staff members help K. reach the exit?
What message does Montag deliver from Miss Bürstner?
How does K. respond to Miss Bürstner's refusal to talk?
Who moves into Miss Bürstner's room?
Where does K. discover the guards facing punishment?
What do the guards blame for their punishment?
How does K. try to stop the flogging?
What does K. find in the storeroom the next evening?
Who takes K. to the lawyer Huld?
What does Leni urge K. to do?
Why does K.'s uncle accuse him of damaging his defense?
What does K. decide he must do about his defense?
What exposes the immediate work cost of K.'s distraction?
Why does K. visit Huld after ten?
What does Block describe about his own case?
Where does K. find Leni during his visit to dismiss Huld?
Why does K. initially go to the cathedral?
What does the prison chaplain warn K. about?
What is the chaplain's story about?
What prompts K. to cooperate with his escorts after resisting?
Where do the two men kill K.?
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