Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	Schubert
		A)	was widely acknowledged as a composer in his lifetime
		B)	was very self-critical, which accounts for his meager output
		C)	produced his greatest works after the age of forty
		D)	was the first great master of the romantic art song


2	The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkönig (The Erlking) unifies the song's episodes and suggests the
		A)	galloping horse
		B)	joy of the child
		C)	calmness of the father
		D)	approach of death


3	Schubert's songs number more than
		A)	50
		B)	100
		C)	250
		D)	600


4	The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of
		A)	ghosts
		B)	death
		C)	nature
		D)	a galloping horse


5	The Erlking is a poem by
		A)	Heinrich Heine
		B)	Schubert himself
		C)	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
		D)	Robert Schumann


6	The form of The Erlking is
		A)	strophic
		B)	modified strophic
		C)	through-composed
		D)	none of the above

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