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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VIII through X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1791.
(d) 1897.

2. What is an English piano manufacturer founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773?
(a) Henselt and Sons.
(b) Hammel and Sons.
(c) Broadwood and Sons.
(d) Steinway.

3. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?
(a) Style galant.
(b) Arpeggio.
(c) Fugue.
(d) Legato.

4. Chopin considered Bach and who to be the only two great composers?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Bertold Hummel.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

5. Two Hungarian countesses wrestled to the ground over what object belonging to Franz Liszt?
(a) A snuffbox.
(b) An autograph.
(c) A piano tuner.
(d) A ring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used to describe a form of playing that means connected consecutive notes without audible separation compared to staccato playing with distinct breaks between consecutive notes?

2. When did the piano become the most popular instrument to be played publicly?

3. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?

4. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?

5. When was Johann Hummel born?

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