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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XXXVI through XXXVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Glenn Gould born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1945.

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

3. When did Sigismond Thalberg die?
(a) 1803.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1919.

4. Where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born?
(a) Paris.
(b) Vienna.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) London.

5. Where was William Sterndale Bennett from?
(a) The United States.
(b) Canada.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Johann Hummel from?

2. Where was Ignacy Jan Paderewski from?

3. What musical term refers to playing notes of a chord one after another rather than at one time?

4. At what age did Glenn Gould retire?

5. What term is used to identify a type of music that is a singing, nuanced, fluffy, polite, and melodic approach developed after Bach's death when the heavy contrapuntal style used in the tempestuous fugue fell into disfavor?

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