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