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

2. How much money did Ignacy Jan Paderewski earn for three months playing in the United States?
(a) $500,000.
(b) $300,000.
(c) $150,000.
(d) $200,000.

3. Where did Liszt have rooms between Weimar and Budapest?
(a) The Vatican.
(b) Buckingham Palace.
(c) Dublin, Ireland.
(d) The Lourvre.

4. What Australian pianist hiked to concerts with a knapsack and was one of the most gifted pianists of the 20th century?
(a) Moriz Rosenthal.
(b) Vassily Sapellnikoff.
(c) Alfred Grunfeld.
(d) Percy Grainger.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Josef Hofmann make his Hamburg debut?

2. Who was Anton Rubinstein's greatest pupil, according to the author?

3. When was Ignacy Jan Paderewski born?

4. Ernest Hutcheson became president of what school of music?

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?

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