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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. Who embellished a Chopin nocturne, prompting Chopin to tell him to play it as he wrote it or not at all?
(a) Bertold Hummel.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Friedrich Chopin.

2. What pianist was born November 14, 1778, in Bohemia?
(a) Carl Czerny.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.

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

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

5. In what year did Leopold Godowsky suffer a stroke?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1878.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the pianist Ernest Hutcheson from?

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

3. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?

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

5. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?

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