Certificate of Merit (CM) Piano Theory Level 9 Practice Test

Contemporary refers to music from the modern era, typically the 20th century onward. Francis Poulenc fits that period as a 20th-century French composer whose work marks the modern, often neoclassical direction of that time. The other names come from earlier styles: Heller is a 19th-century Romantic-era composer, and Mendelssohn and Schumann are key Romantic figures. Since Poulenc is the one whose career and sound align with contemporary music, he starts with P and is the correct pick.