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

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

3. What word refers to a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?
(a) Utopia
(b) Malatopia
(c) Malfunction
(d) Dystopia

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What is K.’s position at the bank where he works in the novel?

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

(see the answer key)

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