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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 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) Frau Block
(c) Fraülein Montag
(d) The Usher's Wife

2. What does K. drink shots of from his wall cabinet while the guards watch him in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Vodka
(b) Gin
(c) Whiskey
(d) Schnapps

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

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) 9
(d) 10

5. What does K. do before leaving Fraülein Bürstner’s room in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) He kisses her
(b) He shouts angrily at her
(c) He spits at her
(d) He slaps her

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the second guard that tells K. that he’s under arrest in “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. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?

4. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?

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

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