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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 did Wertheimer promise to leave to the innkeeper if he died first?
(a) A ring.
(b) His bedroom furniture.
(c) A valuable necklace.
(d) A valuable bracelet.

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

3. What did Wertheimer have Franz burn prior to his death?
(a) His furniture.
(b) His piano.
(c) All of his notes.
(d) His pictures.

4. What was Wertheimer from the moment he was born?
(a) A rich boy.
(b) A pianist.
(c) Insane.
(d) A loser.

5. What does the narrator compare Desselbrunn to?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Traich.
(c) Austria.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did improve his talents through isolation?

2. Who did Wertheimer want to be?

3. What was Wertheimer unable to see himself as?

4. What did Wertheimer NOT dictate for his sister?

5. With what was Wertheimer smitten?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Traich and Desselbrunn compared?

2. How did Wertheimer desire to be like Glenn?

3. Why did the Wertheimer family change?

4. Describe Wertheimer's funeral.

5. Describe what happened when the narrator and Wertheimer tried to play a concert together.

6. What is significant about the end of "The Loser"?

7. Explain why Wertheimer's sister felt uncomfortable in Traich.

8. Discuss the power of condemnation.

9. What does the innkeeper mention in regards to Wertheimer's finances?

10. What was significant of what Wertheimer did not leave behind?

(see the answer keys)

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