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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who's lunch did the narrator refuse?
(a) Duttweilers'.
(b) Desselbrunn's.
(c) The innkeeper's.
(d) Glenn's.

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

4. Who did NOT improve his talents through isolation?
(a) Wertheimer.
(b) Glenn.
(c) Horowitz.
(d) The narrator.

5. What does the narrator believe about the former innkeeper?
(a) He is mean.
(b) He is sick.
(c) He is guilty.
(d) He is innocent.

6. Where did Wertheimer and the narrator first talk?
(a) Their apartment.
(b) By the river.
(c) The hallway of the Mozarteum.
(d) The steps of the church.

7. What did Wertheimer have Franz burn prior to his death?
(a) His piano.
(b) His furniture.
(c) All of his notes.
(d) His pictures.

8. Who did Wertheimer want to be?
(a) The narrator.
(b) His sister's husband.
(c) His sister.
(d) Glenn.

9. What reason does the narrator repeatedly give for Wertheimer's suicide?
(a) Glenn's death.
(b) His abandonment.
(c) His sister's abandonment
(d) Being second best to Glenn.

10. Who did Wertheimer play better than?
(a) Horowitz.
(b) Glenn.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Students at the Mozarteum, except Glenn.

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

12. What did the narrator learn about Wertheimer's hunting lodge in Traich?
(a) A party was held there a week ago.
(b) A party is there that night.
(c) No one has been there since his suicide.
(d) Homeless people live there.

13. Why was Wertheimer unable to play the piano with others?
(a) He was rude.
(b) He shouted when he played.
(c) His piano was out of tune.
(d) He wanted to shine.

14. Whose misery does the narrator see at the inn?
(a) His own.
(b) The innkeeper's.
(c) Wertheimer's.
(d) The beer deliverer's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator advise Wertheimer of after he quit playing the piano?

2. What has the narrator never really considered selling?

3. What did Wertheimer love in association to death?

4. What was Wertheimer from the moment he was born?

5. Who did Wertheimer emulate?

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