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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the trio of friends never worry about?
(a) Paying rent.
(b) Buying a car.
(c) Performing for audiences.
(d) Making money.

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

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

5. What was Wertheimer from the moment he was born?
(a) A loser.
(b) A rich boy.
(c) A pianist.
(d) Insane.

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

7. What did the narrator learn about the last few weeks of Wertheimer's life?
(a) He sang and played at the inn.
(b) He wrote music.
(c) He recorded his version of "Goldberg Variations."
(d) He entertained peculiar guests.

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

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

10. 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.

11. Who is the narrator biased against?
(a) Wertheimer.
(b) Glenn.
(c) All people.
(d) The innkeeper.

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

13. What does the narrator hope his writings will do for him?
(a) Put his thoughts about Wertheimer together.
(b) Allow him to grieve.
(c) Soothe him.
(d) Allow him to sleep.

14. Why did Wertheimer refuse to perform?
(a) He did not want to be inferior to the narrator.
(b) He did not want to be inferior to Horowitz.
(c) He did not want to be inferior to Glenn.
(d) He had stage fright.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what was Wertheimer smitten?

2. What did the narrator learn about Wertheimer's hunting lodge in Traich?

3. Who could Wertheimer have blamed for his death?

4. Who's call did the trio of friends answer?

5. What happened to the previous owner of the inn?

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