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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 changed the emotions of the Wertheimer family?
(a) They lost their land.
(b) They lost all their money.
(c) Their parents died.
(d) A Nazi administration stayed at the lodge.

2. Who is Franz Kohlroser?
(a) The lodge's butler.
(b) Wertheimer's brother.
(c) Wertheimer's uncle.
(d) The lodge's woodsman.

3. What was Wertheimer's brother-in-law interested in?
(a) Seeing Glenn play.
(b) Seeing Wertheimer play.
(c) Moving into Wertheimer's lodge.
(d) The money Wertheimer left behind.

4. Who's call did the trio of friends answer?
(a) Horowitz's.
(b) The Innkeeper's.
(c) Wertheimer's sister.
(d) Mozart's.

5. Who led the narrator to his room after Wertheimer dies?
(a) The narrator's sister.
(b) Glenn.
(c) Wertheimer's sister.
(d) The vulgar innkeeper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who's lunch did the narrator refuse?

2. What was Wertheimer unable to see himself as?

3. How long did Wertheimer's funeral last?

4. What did the narrator condemn before telling the innkeeper about Wertheimer's funeral?

5. What did the innkeeper ask in her letter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the innkeeper's relationship with Wertheimer.

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

4. How does Franz feel about Wertheimer and his death?

5. Compare and contrast the isolation of Wertheimer and Glenn.

6. Describe Wertheimer's funeral.

7. Explain how the narrator feels about his depression.

8. Explain why Wertheimer killed himself in the place he did?

9. What was significant about the Steinway the narrator gave away?

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

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