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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. Where was Chopin born?
(a) Krakaw, Poland.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Warsaw, Poland.
(d) Vienna, Austria.

2. What term is used to describe the mid-eighteenth century disciplined style of piano playing in which the pianist plays notes written by a composer with some flexibility for tasteful improvisation and embellishment?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Classicism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Realism.

3. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?
(a) Theodor Döhler.
(b) William Sterndale Bennett.
(c) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(d) Antoine de Kontski.

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

5. What term is used to describe a form of playing that means connected consecutive notes without audible separation compared to staccato playing with distinct breaks between consecutive notes?
(a) Etuge.
(b) Legato.
(c) Stacatto.
(d) Fugue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What great pianist played piano as he sat erect and formal with minimal movement and earned the nickname Old Arpeggio?

2. Old Arpeggio recommended pressing the keys with energy and vigor rather than striking them and kneading tender passages with "fingers of" what?

3. When did the piano become the most popular instrument to be played publicly?

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

5. What term refers to a form of music also called counterpoint in which several simultaneous melodies are woven together into a harmonious whole that was fostered by Johann Sebastian Bach?

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