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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 countries comprised the Central Powers in the beginning of World War I?
(a) Japan, Israel, and the Russian Empire
(b) France, Spain, and Germany
(c) Germany and Austria-Hungary
(d) The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire

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. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?
(a) Kaminer
(b) Willem
(c) Franz
(d) Rabensteiner

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

5. 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”?
(a) Her dresses
(b) Her pillows
(c) Her photographs
(d) Her carpets

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “blond with deep-set eyes”?

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

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

4. When does Fraülein Bürstner say she’s starting work as a secretary at a lawyer’s office when speaking with K. in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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

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