In a section of this novel, a man gets to know the fleas in the collar of an official who tells him, “I am taking this only so that you do not think you have failed to do anything.” In that part of this novel, a dying man is told that a place was “assigned only to you. I’m going now to close it” after he spends his whole life being denied access by the “lowliest gatekeeper.” After his Italian client fails to show up, this novel’s protagonist meets a priest who tells him a (*) parable called “Before the Law.” Soon after, this novel’s protagonist is taken to a quarry the day before his 31st birthday, where he is executed after crying “like a dog!” Josef K. is arrested for an unknown crime in, for 10 points, what Franz Kafka novel? ■END■