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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 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

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

3. 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”?
(a) Fraülein Bürstner
(b) Leni
(c) Frau Grubach
(d) Elsa

4. 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) Fräulein Bürstner
(b) The Usher's Wife
(c) Fraülein Montag
(d) Frau Block

5. 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”?
(a) White
(b) Black
(c) Gray
(d) Blue

Short Answer Questions

1. When K. first deals with the guards on the morning of his birthday in “The Arrest,” he presumes that this might be a joke played on him by his friends where?

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

3. 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”?

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

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

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