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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXVIII and XXIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Josef Hofmann born?
(a) Poland.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Austria.
(d) The United States.

2. How much money did Ignacy Jan Paderewski earn for three months playing in the United States?
(a) $200,000.
(b) $300,000.
(c) $500,000.
(d) $150,000.

3. What musical school did Anton Rubinstein found?
(a) The Julliard School of Music.
(b) The Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
(c) The New York University School of Music.
(d) The Vienna Conservatory.

4. The "Leschetizky system" assigned pupils who needed more training to an assistant for how long or until they met Leschetizky's standards?
(a) Two years.
(b) One year.
(c) Three years.
(d) Six months.

5. What romantic Polish pianist born in 1830 spent most of his life after 1878 in Vienna?
(a) Ludwig van Beethoven.
(b) Eugene d'Albert.
(c) Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
(d) Theodor Leschetizky.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?

2. Two Hungarian countesses wrestled to the ground over what object belonging to Franz Liszt?

3. Who credited Nicholas Rubinstein as his chief teacher and said Liszt was too old to teach him?

4. In what year did Josef Hofmann play 255 different works in twenty-one concerts without repeating any?

5. When was Sergei Rachmaninoff born?

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