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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VI and VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the piano invented?
(a) 1654.
(b) 1523.
(c) 1709.
(d) 1790.

2. What pianist was born en route between Cassel and Berlin and played with most superficial brilliance?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Ignaz Moscheles.
(d) Friedrich Kalkbrenner.

3. 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) Lute.
(b) Harpsichord.
(c) Organ.
(d) Clavichord.

4. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?
(a) Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
(b) Carl Czerny.
(c) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(d) Ignaz Moscheles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Johann Hummel born?

2. What German pianist, composer, piano teacher, and piano manufacturer was born in 1785?

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?

4. 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?

5. When was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber born?

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