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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 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”?
(a) Next month
(b) Next week
(c) Tomorrow
(d) Next year

2. Where does Fraülein Bürstner say Frau Grubach’s nephew is sleeping in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) In the kitchen
(b) In the adjoining bedroom
(c) In the living room
(d) In the basement

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

4. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?
(a) She is his landlady
(b) She is his mother
(c) She is his aunt
(d) She is his niece

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the second guard that tells K. that he’s under arrest in “The Arrest”?

2. When he goes to demonstrate what happened this morning for Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” K. notes that what was hanging by the window in her room at the time of the inquiry?

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?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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