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Test 1

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  The Palomar Ballroom
B  The Mint
C  The Paramount Ballroom
D  The Cotton Club
Question #2
A  Emancipation
B  Forty Acres and a Mule
C  Separate but Equal
D  Desegregation
Question #3
A  John Robideaux
B  James Reece Europe
C  Scott Joplin
D  Buddy Bolden
Question #4
A  Jamie Harden
B  Mamie Smith
C  Mary Lou Williams
D  Lil Hardin
Question #7
A  It’s So Nice
B  Wonderful World
C  Hello Dolly
D  Babes in Arms
Question #8
A  the relative shape of the musical phrase
B  Speed of the pulse
C  the syncopation of the rhythmic pattern
D  The organization of the pulse
Question #14
A  Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington
B  Willian Count) Basie
C  Brian Blades
D  Buddy Bolden
Question #15
A  Cornet Chop Suey
B  Potato Head Blues
C  Heebie Jeebies
D  Cake Walking Babies from Home
Question #16
A  James Janisse
B  Jasper Johns
C  James P Johnson
D  Jay Z
Question #17
A  slaves and later former slaves performed African influenced music and dance
B  New Orleans blues bands played
C  uptown blacks and downtown Creoles interacted socially
D  brass band met for cutting contests
Question #18
A  syncopation
B  Ragtime
C  Classical music training
D  Blues
Question #19
A  violin/viola
B  trumpet/trombone
C  clarinet/saxophone
D  oboe/bassoon
Question #20
A  New York
B  St. Louis
C  Detroit
D  Chicago
Question #21
A  Willie (The Lion) Smith
B  James P Johnson
C  Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington
D  Jelly Roll Morton
Question #22
A  James P Johnson
B  Jerry Weldon
C  Earl (Fatha) Hines
D  William (Count) Basie
Question #23
A  Earl Fatha Hines, Fats Waller
B  Omer Simeon, Johnny Dodds
C  Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong
D  Zutty Singleton, Baby Dodds
Question #24
A  Crazy Blues
B  Down the Dirt Road Blues
C  Down and Out Blues
D  Un Poco Loco
Question #26
A  trumpet style piano
B  Harlem Ragtime
C  trombone style
D  piano style piano playing
Question #29
A  he got a job with Fate Marable on the Mississippi riverboats
B  he left New Orleans for a life on the road
C  Joe King Oliver asked him to join the Creole Jazz Band in Chicago
D  he was sentenced to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys
Question #33
A  Slow tempos
B  Collective Improvisation
C  Homophonic texture
D  Written arrangements
Question #34
A  Sidney Bechet
B  Freddie Keppard
C  Jelly Roll Morton
D  Joe (King) Oliver
Question #35
A  The Original Dixieland Jazz Band/1917
B  The Creole Jazz Band/1923
C  The Red Hot Peppers/1928
D  Spike’s Seven Pods of Pepper/1922
Question #36
A  Bessie Smith
B  Mamie Smith
C  Clara Smith
D  Will Smith
Question #37
A  They attracted no spectators
B  They were somber, solemn, low key affairs from start to finish
C  They featured lively, up tempo music, coming away from the burial site
D  They discouraged improvisation
Question #38
A  Buddy Bolden
B  Joe Oliver
C  John Robichaux
D  Freddie Keppard
Question #39
A  The French Quarter
B  Hell’s Kitchen
C  Storyville
D  The Devil’s Throat
Question #40
A  The Florida badlands
B  The Missouri territory
C  The Mississippi Delta
D  The Texas panhandle
Question #41
A  Rhythmic sophistication
B  Frequent use of notation
C  Polyphonic texture
D  Harmonic sophistication
Question #42
A  John Philip Sousa
B  Scott Joplin
C  Irving Berlin
D  Stephen Foster
Question #46
A  the first jazz recording
B  the word jazz began to be applied to a musical style
C  the first jazz criticism
D  the first jazz performance
Question #47
A  monophony, homophony, and polyphony
B  repetition, contrast, and variation
C  melody, harmony, and rhythm
D  texture, timbre, and dynamics
Question #48
A  meter
B  swing
C  syncopation
D  tempo
Question #49
A  tempo
B  meter
C  rhythm
D  swing