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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. Chopin considered Bach and who to be the only two great composers?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Bertold Hummel.

2. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?
(a) Pedaling.
(b) Chords.
(c) Keys.
(d) Fugues.

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

4. What Irish pianist, composer, and teacher was born in Dublin in 1782?
(a) Muzio Clementi.
(b) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) John Field.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?

2. Where did Frédéric Chopin die?

3. What nickname did the pianist Leopold Godowsky go by?

4. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."

5. Where was Eugene d'Albert born?

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