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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XX through XXIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1869.

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

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

5. How old was Anton Rubinstein when he debuted?
(a) 15.
(b) 13.
(c) 9.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used to describe a form of playing that means connected consecutive notes without audible separation compared to staccato playing with distinct breaks between consecutive notes?

2. Who was the earliest-born pianist to be recorded?

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

4. What German pianist, conductor, and composer of Czech birth was a pupil of B. D. Weber in Prague and of Albrechtsberger and Salieri in Vienna?

5. Who married composer Robert Schumann, wore black in his memory, and was the authority on his music?

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