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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 compare Desselbrunn to?
(a) Paris.
(b) Austria.
(c) Traich.
(d) Madrid.
2. What did Wertheimer think his sister would do to escape?
(a) Commit suicide.
(b) Get married.
(c) Convert to Catholicism.
(d) Become Baptist.
3. What did the narrator decide not to sell?
(a) His Steinway.
(b) His apartments in Vienna and Dusselbrunn.
(c) His copy of "Goldberg Variations."
(d) His watch.
4. According to the narrator, what does one need to restrain from suicide?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Affection.
5. Who led the narrator to his room after Wertheimer dies?
(a) Glenn.
(b) The vulgar innkeeper.
(c) Wertheimer's sister.
(d) The narrator's sister.
6. Who is Franz Kohlroser?
(a) The lodge's butler.
(b) Wertheimer's brother.
(c) Wertheimer's uncle.
(d) The lodge's woodsman.
7. How did Wertheimer treat his sister?
(a) With control.
(b) With love.
(c) With hate.
(d) Well.
8. With what was Wertheimer smitten?
(a) His sister's happiness.
(b) Glenn's talent.
(c) His happiness.
(d) His failure.
9. Who is the narrator biased against?
(a) The innkeeper.
(b) All people.
(c) Glenn.
(d) Wertheimer.
10. What state is Wertheimer's lodge in when the narrator gets there?
(a) It is dilapidated.
(b) It is unchanged and unlocked.
(c) It is a mess.
(d) It is spotless.
11. What did the narrator learn about Wertheimer's hunting lodge in Traich?
(a) A party is there that night.
(b) Homeless people live there.
(c) A party was held there a week ago.
(d) No one has been there since his suicide.
12. What does the narrator intend to write about when he returns?
(a) About Wertheimer.
(b) About himself.
(c) About being a pianist.
(d) About Glenn Gould.
13. 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.
14. Who's lunch did the narrator refuse?
(a) Desselbrunn's.
(b) Duttweilers'.
(c) Glenn's.
(d) The innkeeper's.
15. Who did the innkeeper write a letter to?
(a) Wertheimer.
(b) Horowitz.
(c) Wertheimer's sister.
(d) Glenn.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator promise to the innkeeper?
2. According to the narrator, what is the only escape from oneself?
3. What did Wertheimer refuse to buy for the innkeeper?
4. What is playing in the final scene of "The Loser"?
5. What does the narrator believe about the former innkeeper?
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