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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XI through XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Leopold de Meyer debut in America?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1803.

2. What son of a Hungarian official was born in 1811 became a priest in 1865 but had no authority to celebrate mass or hear confession?
(a) Sigismond Thalberg.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) Friedrich Chopin.
(d) Franz Liszt.

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

4. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?
(a) Muzio Clementi.
(b) Adolf von Henselt.
(c) John Field.
(d) Bartolomeo Cristofori.

5. Who studied under Carl Czerny and began his public career at the age of 11, appearing at the Teatro San Benedetto, Venice, in 1843?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) Alfred Jaëll.
(c) William Sterndale Bennett.
(d) Theodor Döhler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a term used to describe various tools invented to help young piano students learn and practice that included a chiroplast, guide-mains, dactylion to suspend fingers on springs, pocket hand exerciser, and technicon among others that promised perfection with less work?

2. What German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period studied under Julius Benedict, Carl Czerny, and Simon Sechte?

3. In what year did the romantic upheaval take place in music?

4. What refers to an early keyboard instrument producing a soft sound by means of metal blades attached to the inner ends of the keys gently striking the strings?

5. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?

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