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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Conversation with Frau Grubach.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “blond with deep-set eyes”?
(a) Franz
(b) Willem
(c) Rabensteiner
(d) Kullich

2. At what time does Fraülein Bürstner return home in the evening as K. waits for her arrival in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) 11:00
(b) 12:00
(c) 1:30
(d) 11:30

3. What countries comprised the Central Powers in the beginning of World War I?
(a) France, Spain, and Germany
(b) Germany and Austria-Hungary
(c) The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire
(d) Japan, Israel, and the Russian Empire

4. What word refers to a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?
(a) Dystopia
(b) Malatopia
(c) Malfunction
(d) Utopia

5. What do the guards offer to fetch for K. “for a small sum of money” in “The Arrest”?
(a) Breakfast
(b) Lunch
(c) His landlady
(d) His clothing

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Frau Grubach say Fraülein Bürstner has gone in the evening when K. returns home in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

2. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

3. The supervisor who enters K.’s home after the guards in “The Arrest” tells him, “Think less about us and what is going to happen to you, think more about” what?

4. By what method of transportation does K. travel to work in the morning in “The Arrest”?

5. What is the name of the strange guard that opens K.’s door when he rings for his breakfast in the beginning of “The Arrest”?

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