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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 Palomar Ballroom
C  The Paramount Ballroom
D  The Cotton Club
Question #2
A  Desegregation
B  Emancipation
C  Separate but Equal
D  Forty Acres and a Mule
Question #3
A  James Reece Europe
B  Buddy Bolden
C  Scott Joplin
D  John Robideaux
Question #4
A  Lil Hardin
B  Jamie Harden
C  Mamie Smith
D  Mary Lou Williams
Question #7
A  Babes in Arms
B  It’s So Nice
C  Hello Dolly
D  Wonderful World
Question #8
A  The organization of the pulse
B  Speed of the pulse
C  the syncopation of the rhythmic pattern
D  the relative shape of the musical phrase
Question #14
A  Willian Count) Basie
B  Brian Blades
C  Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington
D  Buddy Bolden
Question #15
A  Cake Walking Babies from Home
B  Cornet Chop Suey
C  Potato Head Blues
D  Heebie Jeebies
Question #16
A  Jasper Johns
B  James P Johnson
C  Jay Z
D  James Janisse
Question #17
A  uptown blacks and downtown Creoles interacted socially
B  New Orleans blues bands played
C  slaves and later former slaves performed African influenced music and dance
D  brass band met for cutting contests
Question #18
A  syncopation
B  Blues
C  Classical music training
D  Ragtime
Question #19
A  trumpet/trombone
B  violin/viola
C  oboe/bassoon
D  clarinet/saxophone
Question #20
A  Detroit
B  Chicago
C  New York
D  St. Louis
Question #21
A  Willie (The Lion) Smith
B  Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington
C  James P Johnson
D  Jelly Roll Morton
Question #22
A  Earl (Fatha) Hines
B  Jerry Weldon
C  William (Count) Basie
D  James P Johnson
Question #23
A  Zutty Singleton, Baby Dodds
B  Omer Simeon, Johnny Dodds
C  Earl Fatha Hines, Fats Waller
D  Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong
Question #24
A  Un Poco Loco
B  Down and Out Blues
C  Crazy Blues
D  Down the Dirt Road Blues
Question #26
A  trumpet style piano
B  piano style piano playing
C  Harlem Ragtime
D  trombone style
Question #29
A  he was sentenced to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys
B  Joe King Oliver asked him to join the Creole Jazz Band in Chicago
C  he left New Orleans for a life on the road
D  he got a job with Fate Marable on the Mississippi riverboats
Question #33
A  Written arrangements
B  Collective Improvisation
C  Homophonic texture
D  Slow tempos
Question #34
A  Joe (King) Oliver
B  Freddie Keppard
C  Sidney Bechet
D  Jelly Roll Morton
Question #35
A  Spike’s Seven Pods of Pepper/1922
B  The Creole Jazz Band/1923
C  The Red Hot Peppers/1928
D  The Original Dixieland Jazz Band/1917
Question #36
A  Clara Smith
B  Bessie Smith
C  Mamie Smith
D  Will 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  Buddy Bolden
B  John Robichaux
C  Freddie Keppard
D  Joe Oliver
Question #39
A  Hell’s Kitchen
B  Storyville
C  The Devil’s Throat
D  The French Quarter
Question #40
A  The Florida badlands
B  The Mississippi Delta
C  The Texas panhandle
D  The Missouri territory
Question #41
A  Frequent use of notation
B  Polyphonic texture
C  Rhythmic sophistication
D  Harmonic sophistication
Question #42
A  Scott Joplin
B  John Philip Sousa
C  Irving Berlin
D  Stephen Foster
Question #46
A  the first jazz recording
B  the first jazz performance
C  the first jazz criticism
D  the word jazz began to be applied to a musical style
Question #47
A  repetition, contrast, and variation
B  texture, timbre, and dynamics
C  monophony, homophony, and polyphony
D  melody, harmony, and rhythm
Question #48
A  swing
B  meter
C  syncopation
D  tempo
Question #49
A  rhythm
B  tempo
C  swing
D  meter