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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXX through XXXII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Eugene d'Albert born?
(a) The United States.
(b) France.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Denmark.

2. What term refers to a group of eight interrelated notes?
(a) Sonata.
(b) Scale.
(c) Octave.
(d) Chord.

3. When was Johann Hummel born?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1778.
(d) 1745.

4. What pianist was born in April 28, 1873 in New Malden, Surrey, England?
(a) Bartolomeo Cristofori.
(b) Muzio Clementi.
(c) John Field.
(d) Harold Bauer.

5. Whose austere Russian appearance produced organized, impeccably delivered serious sonorities with musical elegance and exquisitely finished phrases?
(a) Paderewski's.
(b) Josef Lhevinne's.
(c) Sergei Rachmaninoff's.
(d) Isadora Duncan's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Sigismond Thalberg debut in New York and play fifty-six concerts?

2. Chapter VI, In the Interim describes the last two decades of what century?

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

4. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?

5. How much money did Ignacy Jan Paderewski earn for three months playing in the United States?

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