"The Test" (German: "Die Prüfung") is a

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

by Franz Kafka that comprises a conversation between two men. The titular test, which has been described as an exercise in "question questioning", is a mental exercise by one of the conversants, who sees whether the other behaves the way he expects.

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