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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 Fraülein Bürstner looks around her room for any signs of disorder after returning home, she remarks that what “have been messed up” in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Her photographs
(b) Her pillows
(c) Her dresses
(d) Her carpets

2. 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) Uncomfortable but serene
(b) Deeply troubled by it
(c) Satisfied with it
(d) Worried sick about it

3. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?
(a) Rabensteiner
(b) Kaminer
(c) Willem
(d) Franz

4. 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?
(a) Your employees
(b) Your wife
(c) Your family
(d) Yourself instead

5. The next room to K.’s in “The Arrest” has been taken by “a typist, who went off to work very early and came back late.” What is this character’s name?
(a) The Usher's Wife
(b) Fraülein Montag
(c) Frau Block
(d) Fräulein Bürstner

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the man from the state prosecution office that K. tells the supervisor is his friend in “The Arrest”?

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

5. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?

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