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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 was Wertheimer's sole decision?
(a) Leaving Traich.
(b) Moving to Traich.
(c) His suicide.
(d) Living with his sister.

2. Who had a sexual relationship with the innkeeper?
(a) Wertheimer.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Wertheimer's sister.
(d) Glenn.

3. Why did Glenn stay to study in Salzburg?
(a) Because it was beautiful.
(b) To play a Steinway.
(c) To study with Horowitz.
(d) Because it was historical.

4. Where did the narrator escape from during the years he did not see Wertheimer or Glenn?
(a) Florence and Italy.
(b) Madrid and Spain.
(c) Vienna and Austria.
(d) Frankfurt and Germany.

5. Who else confirmed the narrator's opinion that Glenn was extraordinary?
(a) The newspapers.
(b) The radio.
(c) The television.
(d) The tabloids.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Wertheimer arrogant about?

2. What did the narrator and Wertheimer destroy?

3. How long did it take Glenn to change his opinion of Salzburg?

4. What purpose did the sculptures serve in the house in Leopoldskron?

5. What was the title of the book Wertheimer desired to publish?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the significance of the term "piano radicalism."

2. How did Wertheimer view life by the end of Section 5, after they go to New York City?

3. How did Wertheimer attempt to save himself?

4. How does the narrator feel about Horowitz?

5. How did Wertheimer behave in relation to the narrator in Section 7?

6. What did Glenn desire in people?

7. What was ironic about Wertheimer's desire to write "The Loser"?

8. Describe Wertheimer and his sister's relationship.

9. How did the narrator and Wertheimer ruin each other?

10. Discuss the narrator's desire and motivation for studying the piano.

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