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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. The supervisor who enters K.’s home after the guards in “The Arrest” tells him, “Think less about us and what is going to happen to you, think more about” what?
(a) Yourself instead
(b) Your wife
(c) Your family
(d) Your employees

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 basement
(c) In the adjoining bedroom
(d) In the living room

3. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Spring
(b) Autumn
(c) Winter
(d) Summer

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

5. 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) Elsa
(c) Leni
(d) Frau Grubach

Short Answer 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?

2. 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?

3. By what method of transportation does K. travel to work in the morning in “The Arrest”?

4. 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”?

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

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