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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. 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

2. What do the two guards do with K.’s breakfast when it arrives in “The Arrest”?
(a) They send it back
(b) They give it to K
(c) They eat it
(d) They throw it out the window

3. What is the name of the second guard that tells K. that he’s under arrest in “The Arrest”?
(a) Franz
(b) Willem
(c) Kaminer
(d) Hasterer

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

5. What does K. do before leaving Fraülein Bürstner’s room in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) He kisses her
(b) He slaps her
(c) He spits at her
(d) He shouts angrily at her

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “blond with deep-set eyes”?

2. What does K. drink shots of from his wall cabinet while the guards watch him in the beginning of “The Arrest”?

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

4. 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”?

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

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