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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. What student of Franz Liszt was described as having touch that was "soft as velvet and as strong as a man's"?
(a) Clara Schumann.
(b) Amy Fay.
(c) Sophie Mentor.
(d) Adele aus der Ohe.

2. Where was the pianist Ernest Hutcheson from?
(a) Canada.
(b) Australia.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

3. Who was world exponent of ultra-avant-garde pianism because he could read the new printed notes that required playing simultaneously piano keyboard, sounding board and strings, tape recorder and kazoo?
(a) David Tudor.
(b) Arthur Rubinstein.
(c) Claude Debussy.
(d) Vladimir Horowitz.

4. Who was considered Liszt's equal and a "living impersonation of Chopin"?
(a) Franz Liszt.
(b) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(c) Carl Tausig.
(d) Hans von Bulow.

5. What Polish piano-player could not play two correct notes in a row and always played fortissimo?
(a) Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
(b) Antoine de Kontski.
(c) Theodor Döhler.
(d) William Sterndale Bennett.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was William Sterndale Bennett from?

2. What Hungarian composer wildly gesticulated back and forth all over the keyboard when he played?

3. How old was Josef Hofmann when he made his American debut?

4. In what year did Josef Hofmann play 255 different works in twenty-one concerts without repeating any?

5. What is the name of a term used to describe a form of music in which themes successively repeat?

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