A barmaid breaks off her engagement to this character in favor of one of his two nearly identical assistants. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who is repeatedly rebuffed by the elusive Klamm, an official of the title structure, throughout an unfinished novel.
ANSWER: K. [reject “Josef K.”]
[10m] Name these people from modern-day Virginia. John Smith claimed that these people were about to execute him until the intervention of a member of this group, Pocahontas.
ANSWER: Powhatan people [or Powhatan Confederacy; accept Tsenacommacah; prompt on Algonquian people]
[10e] K. is the protagonist of this author’s unfinished novel The Castle, which this author’s friend Max Brod preserved along with this author’s novels Amerika and The Trial.
ANSWER: Franz Kafka
[10e] The Powhatan interacted with this colony in Virginia. John Smith led this colony, which was the first permanent English settlement in America.
ANSWER: Jamestown
[10h] This friend of Brod and Kafka gave the latter the last book he held before dying. This author of The Song of Bernadette and The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was Alma Mahler’s final husband.
ANSWER: Franz Werfel
[10h] This military leader abducted Pocahantas and held her captive to negotiate with the Powhatan. He later led raids against Acadia and served as governor of the Virginia Colony.
ANSWER: Sir Samuel Argall
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