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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. 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) Clavichord.
(d) Organ.

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

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

4. When was Vladimir von Pachmann born?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1848.

5. Chopin considered Bach and who to be the only two great composers?
(a) Adolf von Henselt.
(b) Bertold Hummel.
(c) Franz Liszt.
(d) Mozart.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What Austrian child prodigy made his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto?

3. What pianist wrote music that took "remarkable stretch" and "peculiar hand formation" to reach his left-hand extensions?

4. What pianist never played in public but stayed in Vienna to teach pupils and compose over a thousand published works?

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

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