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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who's call did the trio of friends answer?
(a) Mozart's.
(b) Horowitz's.
(c) Wertheimer's sister.
(d) The Innkeeper's.

2. Where does the narrator escape to upon leaving the inn.
(a) Desselbrunn.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Traich.
(d) Austria.

3. Who did the innkeeper take over the inn from?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her late husband.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her dad.

4. What did the former innkeeper's wife die from?
(a) From cancer.
(b) From a gun shot.
(c) From heartbreak.
(d) From grief.

5. Why was Wertheimer's funeral held at the time it is held?
(a) His sister had to work.
(b) No one cares.
(c) No one was supposed to notice.
(d) Glenn died at that same time.

6. What did the innkeeper praise Wertheimer for?
(a) Being the best beer drinker.
(b) Being a good dad.
(c) Being a refined gentleman.
(d) Being a great pianist.

7. What is playing in the final scene of "The Loser"?
(a) Ray Charles.
(b) "Goldberg Variations."
(c) An opera.
(d) The Beatles.

8. Where did the narrator consider going, but changed his mind because he thought it would kill him?
(a) Wertheimer's lodge.
(b) Traich.
(c) The Mozarteum.
(d) Desselbrunn.

9. What will Wertheimer's sister likely be interested in after her brother's death?
(a) The Traich affairs.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The piano.
(d) Glenn.

10. How did Wertheimer treat his sister?
(a) With control.
(b) With hate.
(c) Well.
(d) With love.

11. What did Wertheimer love in association to death?
(a) Funeral hymns.
(b) The prelude of a funeral service.
(c) Funerals.
(d) Cemeteries.

12. What does the narrator examine as he waits for his hot tea?
(a) The innkeeper's body.
(b) The dirt on the inn's floor.
(c) An infection on his temple.
(d) A cut on his finger.

13. What did Wertheimer think his sister would do to escape?
(a) Convert to Catholicism.
(b) Commit suicide.
(c) Become Baptist.
(d) Get married.

14. Who was not ruined by Glenn?
(a) Wertheimer.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Lesser pianists.
(d) His parents.

15. Who is Franz Kohlroser?
(a) Wertheimer's brother.
(b) The lodge's butler.
(c) Wertheimer's uncle.
(d) The lodge's woodsman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Wertheimer's sister feel the way she does about the lodge in Traich?

2. What brought Wertheimer to Salzburg?

3. Who is the narrator biased against?

4. Why does the narrator feel guilt towards Wertheimer?

5. How long did Wertheimer's funeral last?

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