What stimulated Beethoven to compose his final quartets?
A) nostalgia over his youthful association with Haydn
B) a special series of concerts during the Congress of Vienna
C) a commission that was accompanied by a significant monetary down-payment
D) to experiment with some ideas he hoped to use in his next symphony
Question 2
What formed the basis of the second section of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor From Warsaw?
A) the She'ma, a central text of Judaism taken from the Old Testament
B) diary entries by a Jewish survivor of Nazi persecution
C) newspaper reports of the liberation of the concentration camps
D) all of these choices