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

2. What did Wertheimer force his sister to do for him in the middle of the night?
(a) Play the piano.
(b) Cook for him.
(c) Sing to him.
(d) Tuck him in.

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

4. Who did the innkeeper write a letter to?
(a) Wertheimer.
(b) Wertheimer's sister.
(c) Glenn.
(d) Horowitz.

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

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

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

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

9. What does the narrator notice Wertheimer did not leave behind?
(a) Food.
(b) A note.
(c) A footstep.
(d) A mess.

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

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

12. Who did the innkeeper travel with to Hirschbach?
(a) No one.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her mom.
(d) Her dad.

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

14. What did the innkeeper say about Wertheimer's suicide?
(a) He was a fool for committing it.
(b) He was smart for committing it.
(c) She wishes she did it.
(d) She hates how he died.

15. According to the narrator, how do people judge others, no matter what they perceive?
(a) Rigidly.
(b) Falsely.
(c) Rudely.
(d) Accurately.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state is Wertheimer's lodge in when the narrator gets there?

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

3. Who did Wertheimer play better than?

4. What did the narrator learn about the last few weeks of Wertheimer's life?

5. What does the narrator promise to the innkeeper?

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