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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. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) 8
(b) 11
(c) 10
(d) 9

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

3. What is K.’s position at the bank where he works in the novel?
(a) Morning desk clerk
(b) Vice-President
(c) President
(d) Chief Financial Officer

4. The guards at K.’s house tell him that his jacket for the meeting with the supervisor must be what color in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Black
(b) White
(c) Blue
(d) Gray

5. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?
(a) Franz
(b) Kullych
(c) Kaminer
(d) Willem

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Frau Grubach’s nephew?

2. Where does Fraülein Bürstner say Frau Grubach’s nephew is sleeping in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

3. What do the two guards do with K.’s breakfast when it arrives in “The Arrest”?

4. When did World War I begin?

5. 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?

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