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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wertheimer order and get delivered in the same day?
(a) A piano.
(b) A new grandfather clock.
(c) A violin.
(d) A porch swing.

2. Who did improve his talents through isolation?
(a) Wertheimer.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Horowitz.
(d) Glenn.

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

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

5. With what was Wertheimer smitten?
(a) His happiness.
(b) Glenn's talent.
(c) His sister's happiness.
(d) His failure.

6. What changed the emotions of the Wertheimer family?
(a) A Nazi administration stayed at the lodge.
(b) They lost their land.
(c) Their parents died.
(d) They lost all their money.

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

8. What did Wertheimer demand of his guests at the feast he prepared?
(a) For everyone to play the piano.
(b) That they stay another week.
(c) That they leave the next day.
(d) To sing a song.

9. What was Wertheimer's brother-in-law interested in?
(a) Moving into Wertheimer's lodge.
(b) Seeing Wertheimer play.
(c) The money Wertheimer left behind.
(d) Seeing Glenn play.

10. According to the narrator, what is the only escape from oneself?
(a) Religion.
(b) Food.
(c) Music.
(d) Death.

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

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

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

14. Who could Wertheimer have blamed for his death?
(a) Glenn.
(b) Horowitz.
(c) His sister.
(d) The narrator.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Wertheimer's sister likely be interested in after her brother's death?

2. What did the narrator condemn before telling the innkeeper about Wertheimer's funeral?

3. Who did Wertheimer want to be?

4. Why was Wertheimer's funeral held at the time it is held?

5. What did Wertheimer NOT dictate for his sister?

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