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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VI and VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.

2. 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) Romanticism.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Cubism.
(d) Modernism.

3. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?
(a) John Field.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Muzio Clementi.
(d) Bartolomeo Cristofori.

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

5. What musical instrument consists of one or more sets of pipes sounded by means of compressed air, played by means of one or more keyboards, and capable of producing a wide range of musical effects?
(a) Clavichord.
(b) Organ.
(c) Lute.
(d) Harpsichord.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?

2. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?

3. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?

4. 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?

5. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?

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