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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. Who was the first great pianist who made a clear break with classicism to set romantic pianism on its course?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Mozart.

2. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
(c) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

3. What son of a Hungarian official was born in 1811 became a priest in 1865 but had no authority to celebrate mass or hear confession?
(a) Sigismond Thalberg.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Franz Liszt.

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

5. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?
(a) Ignaz Moscheles.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(d) Carl Czerny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used to describe the mid-eighteenth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist plays notes written by a composer with some flexibility for tasteful improvisation and embellishment?

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

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?

4. What style, perfect for piano, was invented in 1709 by Italian harpsichord-maker Bartolommeo Cristofori to play in salons?

5. Who invented the piano?

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