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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. When did World War I begin?
(a) September 2, 1911
(b) June 30, 1915
(c) January 16, 1912
(d) July 28, 1914

2. By what method of transportation does K. travel to work in the morning in “The Arrest”?
(a) By bus
(b) By taxi
(c) By train
(d) By bicycle

3. When K. leaves Fräulein Bürstner’s room at the end of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” he thinks “for a while about the way he had behaved; he was” what?
(a) Satisfied with it
(b) Worried sick about it
(c) Deeply troubled by it
(d) Uncomfortable but serene

4. Whose cook is said to bring K. his breakfast around eight every morning in “The Arrest”?
(a) Frau Grubach’s
(b) Fraülein Bürstner’s
(c) Rudi Block’s
(d) Dr. Huld’s

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What countries comprised the Central Powers in the beginning of World War I?

2. When does Fraülein Bürstner say she’s starting work as a secretary at a lawyer’s office when speaking with K. in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

3. What do the guards offer to fetch for K. “for a small sum of money” in “The Arrest”?

4. What word refers to a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?

5. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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