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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. In what year was Henri Herz born?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1803.

2. Where was William Sterndale Bennett from?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) The United States.
(c) France.
(d) Canada.

3. From 1750 to 1824, London music shops grew from 12 to how many?
(a) 150.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 200.

4. 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) Friedrich Chopin.
(b) Franz Liszt.
(c) Adolf von Henselt.
(d) Sigismond Thalberg.

5. What term is used to describe the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century virtuoso style of piano playing in which a pianist plays with expanded flexibility?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Cubism.
(c) Classicism.
(d) Modernism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?

2. Who was the rival of Franz Liszt?

3. A primitive cylinder recording of Brahms was found dated from what year?

4. What pianist was born in April 28, 1873 in New Malden, Surrey, England?

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

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