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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XI through XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Chopin born?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Krakaw, Poland.
(c) Vienna, Austria.
(d) Paris, France.

2. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Bertold Hummel.

3. What term is used to describe the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century virtuoso style of piano playing in which a pianist plays with expanded flexibility?
(a) Cubism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Classicism.

4. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

5. What refers to a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century?
(a) Organ.
(b) Harpsichord.
(c) Clavichord.
(d) Lute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?

2. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?

3. When was Johann Hummel born?

4. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?

5. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?

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