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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. By what method of transportation does K. travel to work in the morning in “The Arrest”?
(a) By taxi
(b) By bicycle
(c) By train
(d) By bus

2. What is the name of the man from the state prosecution office that K. tells the supervisor is his friend in “The Arrest”?
(a) Hasterer
(b) Kullych
(c) Block
(d) Kaminer

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

4. 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?
(a) A hat
(b) A coat
(c) A blouse
(d) A curtain

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. What character is described in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” as a girl “who worked serving in a wine-bar during the night and well into the morning, and during the daytime only received visitors from her bed”?

3. 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?

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

5. Whose cook is said to bring K. his breakfast around eight every morning in “The Arrest”?

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