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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What led to the narrator's depression and Wertheimer's suicide?
(a) The inability to live openly as homosexuals.
(b) Their teacher's death.
(c) Glenn's death.
(d) The inability to surpass Glenn's talent.

2. What suffocated Wertheimer and the narrator?
(a) Austria.
(b) Italy.
(c) Glenn's talent.
(d) The Mozarteum.

3. What tormented Wertheimer?
(a) His job.
(b) The narrator's death.
(c) Glenn's death.
(d) His failure.

4. According to the narrator's list of statements, what type of people are amazed?
(a) Stupid people.
(b) Complicated people.
(c) Insane people.
(d) Intelligent people.

5. What is the narrator tormented by?
(a) His failure.
(b) His mom's death.
(c) Glenn's death.
(d) Wertheimer's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Wertheimer refuse to go without the narrator?

2. What did Glenn refuse from Wertheimer?

3. How long did Wertheimer keep his curtains closed after his sister left?

4. Where did the trio of friends study?

5. Where did the narrator say he stays when he goes to his hometown?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Glenn became "Glenn Gould."

2. Describe what the narrator said people knew and thought about Glenn.

3. How did the narrator feel about Horowitz as a teacher?

4. Describe the item that was left in the three friends apartment that they rented in Leopoldskron.

5. What did Glenn desire in people?

6. How did the narrator and the newspapers perceive Glenn Gould?

7. Describe how the narrator feels about suicide.

8. What marked Wertheimer's deterioration?

9. How did Glenn disprove his parents?

10. Why were the "Goldberg Variations" significant to the narrator and Wertheimer?

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