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

2. Where did the narrator move to?
(a) Paris.
(b) Barcelona.
(c) Madrid.
(d) Florence.

3. Who did Glenn use to become 'Glenn Gould'?
(a) Wertheimer and the narrator.
(b) His fans.
(c) His parents.
(d) The Mozarteum.

4. Who did the trio of friends study under?
(a) Horowitz.
(b) Handle.
(c) Chacowitz.
(d) Mozart.

5. Who opposed the idea of the narrator and Wertheimer going to America to visit Glenn?
(a) Wertheimer.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Glenn.
(d) Wertheimer's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Glenn play at the Salzburg Festival?

2. How did Glenn die?

3. What did Wertheimer predict about Glenn's death?

4. Why did Glenn stay to study in Salzburg?

5. Where did Glenn go when the narrator and Wertheimer remark that Glenn is lost in his art?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Glenn desire in people?

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

4. What showed the narrator's depression in Section 3?

5. Describe what is significant about the Mozarteum.

6. What marked Wertheimer's deterioration?

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

8. Describe how Wertheimer felt about traveling and his family.

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

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

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