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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. Chapter VI, In the Interim describes the last two decades of what century?
(a) 18th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 19th.
(d) 16th.

2. Under whom did Ignacy Jan Paderewski study piano?
(a) Eugene d'Albert.
(b) Theodor Leschetizky.
(c) Ludwig van Beethoven.
(d) Bartolommeo Cristofori.

3. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?
(a) Silk.
(b) Velvet.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Glass.

4. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1845.

5. What nickname referred to Eugene d'Albert?
(a) "The Maestro."
(b) "Chopinzee."
(c) "The Little Giant."
(d) "Brahma of the Keyboard."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Chopin born?

2. Paderewski did not receive systematic instruction until what age?

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

4. Thalberg fully retired from playing with not even a piano at home in what year?

5. Chopin considered Bach and who to be the only two great composers?

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