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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VIII through X.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what year was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1749.
(c) 1714.
(d) 1756.

4. When did Chopin arrive in Paris as a fully-developed composer and pianist?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1789.

5. What German pianist and composer was a pupil of Hummel and Sechter and became court pianist in St Petersburg?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Friedrich Chopin.
(c) Carl Czerny.
(d) Adolf von Henselt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Franz Liszt musical director and the location of the headquarters for "Music of the Future"?

2. What is a term used to describe various tools invented to help young piano students learn and practice that included a chiroplast, guide-mains, dactylion to suspend fingers on springs, pocket hand exerciser, and technicon among others that promised perfection with less work?

3. Chopin introduced changes in fingering and what that remained stylish into the next century?

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

5. In what year did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart die?

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