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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXIV and XXV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Australian pianist hiked to concerts with a knapsack and was one of the most gifted pianists of the 20th century?
(a) Percy Grainger.
(b) Vassily Sapellnikoff.
(c) Alfred Grunfeld.
(d) Moriz Rosenthal.

2. Who played melody with his thumbs in the middle of the keyboard while his fingers played arpeggios up and down the keyboard?
(a) Friedrich Chopin.
(b) Sigismond Thalberg.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Bertold Hummel.

3. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?
(a) Dublin, Ireland.
(b) The Vatican.
(c) Buckingham Palace.
(d) The Lourvre.

4. Who was the rival of Franz Liszt?
(a) Sigismond Thalberg.
(b) Bertold Hummel.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Friedrich Chopin.

5. What nickname did the pianist Leopold Godowsky go by?
(a) "The Piano God."
(b) "The Little Giant."
(c) "Chopinzee."
(d) "Brahma of the Keyboard."

Short Answer Questions

1. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?

2. What romantic Polish pianist born in 1830 spent most of his life after 1878 in Vienna?

3. Where was Chopin born?

4. Who was the first great pianist who made a clear break with classicism to set romantic pianism on its course?

5. Chapter VI, In the Interim describes the last two decades of what century?

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