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

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) Kaminer
(c) Block
(d) Kullych

3. What is the name of Frau Grubach’s nephew?
(a) Lanz
(b) Rabensteiner
(c) Hasterer
(d) Leni

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

5. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “blond with deep-set eyes”?
(a) Kullich
(b) Willem
(c) Rabensteiner
(d) Franz

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

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

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

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. What is the name of the strange guard that opens K.’s door when he rings for his breakfast in the beginning of “The Arrest”?

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