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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. What refers to a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century?
(a) Organ.
(b) Lute.
(c) Clavichord.
(d) Harpsichord.

2. In what year did Johannes Sebastian Bach die?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1740.

3. In the late 18th century, piano-playing techniques changed from Clementi's classic horizontal hand and arm level to outward-turned hands and wrists exemplified by whom?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

4. When did the piano become the most popular instrument to be played publicly?
(a) 1772.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1814.

5. Chopin's music was critiqued as exotic or even insane for its "bold dissonance and strange _____."
(a) Scales.
(b) Sonatas.
(c) Etudes.
(d) Harmonies.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where was Johann Hummel from?

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

4. Who held solo concerts in 1839 Rome?

5. In what year was Henri Herz born?

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