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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Wertheimer unable to see himself as?
(a) Old.
(b) A unique individual.
(c) Talented.
(d) Talentless.

2. What does Franz worry about?
(a) How things will change at the lodge.
(b) He will be out of a job.
(c) Being alone.
(d) Wertheimer's final state of being.

3. What did the narrator never consider about the death of Wertheimer?
(a) That he could die.
(b) That it was a suicide.
(c) That he was shot.
(d) That he died naturally.

4. What does the narrator compare Desselbrunn to?
(a) Traich.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Austria.
(d) Paris.

5. What did the narrator condemn before telling the innkeeper about Wertheimer's funeral?
(a) Wertheimer.
(b) Glenn.
(c) The government and socialists.
(d) The church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator consider going, but changed his mind because he thought it would kill him?

2. What did the former innkeeper's wife die from?

3. What did the trio of friends never worry about?

4. Who did the innkeeper travel with to Hirschbach?

5. How long were the innkeeper and her husband married?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator return to his apartment after Wertheimer's death?

2. What was significant of what Wertheimer did not leave behind?

3. What was significant about the Steinway the narrator gave away?

4. Compare and contrast the isolation of Wertheimer and Glenn.

5. Explain how the narrator feels about his depression.

6. What is significant about the end of "The Loser"?

7. Describe why the innkeeper became the innkeeper.

8. How are Traich and Desselbrunn compared?

9. What does the narrator think about after Wertheimer's funeral?

10. How does Franz feel about Wertheimer and his death?

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