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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. In what year did Louis Moreau Gottschalk die?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1798.

2. Who discovered Harold Bauer at twenty playing piano?
(a) Johannes Sebastian Bach.
(b) Sergei Rachmaninoff.
(c) Paderewski.
(d) Josef Lhevinne.

3. Who is Anton Rubinstein described as looking and playing like?
(a) Chopin.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Bach.
(d) Beethoven.

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

5. 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?
(a) Legato and stacatto.
(b) Etude and arpeggio.
(c) Devices and mechanisms.
(d) Etudes and scales.

Short Answer Questions

1. Two Hungarian countesses wrestled to the ground over what object belonging to Franz Liszt?

2. Where was the pianist Ernest Hutcheson from?

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

4. Where was Annette Essipoff from?

5. Leschetizky identified three elements of being a great pianist that included being a what?

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