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