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

2. What Russian pianist played Chopin's Polonaise for an amazed critic, George Bernard Shaw?
(a) Alfred Grunfeld.
(b) Percy Grainger.
(c) Moriz Rosenthal.
(d) Vassily Sapellnikoff.

3. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Ignaz Moscheles.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

4. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

5. Where did Paderewski debut in 1887?
(a) New York.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Paris.
(d) Oslo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ernest Hutcheson became president of what school of music?

2. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?

3. When was Frédéric Chopin born?

4. What was an ill-defined method of balanced playing where stronger emphasized notes were offset by lesser emphasized notes?

5. What country did Eugene d'Albert consider to be his spiritual home?

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