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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 Cotton Club
C  The Paramount Ballroom
D  The Mint
Question #2
A  Separate but Equal
B  Emancipation
C  Desegregation
D  Forty Acres and a Mule
Question #3
A  John Robideaux
B  Scott Joplin
C  James Reece Europe
D  Buddy Bolden
Question #4
A  Lil Hardin
B  Mamie Smith
C  Mary Lou Williams
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 organization of the pulse
C  the syncopation of the rhythmic pattern
D  the relative shape of the musical phrase
Question #14
A  Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington
B  Willian Count) Basie
C  Buddy Bolden
D  Brian Blades
Question #15
A  Heebie Jeebies
B  Potato Head Blues
C  Cake Walking Babies from Home
D  Cornet Chop Suey
Question #16
A  Jasper Johns
B  James P Johnson
C  Jay Z
D  James Janisse
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  syncopation
C  Ragtime
D  Blues
Question #19
A  trumpet/trombone
B  clarinet/saxophone
C  violin/viola
D  oboe/bassoon
Question #20
A  Chicago
B  Detroit
C  New York
D  St. Louis
Question #21
A  Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington
B  Jelly Roll Morton
C  Willie (The Lion) Smith
D  James P Johnson
Question #22
A  Earl (Fatha) Hines
B  Jerry Weldon
C  James P Johnson
D  William (Count) Basie
Question #23
A  Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong
B  Earl Fatha Hines, Fats Waller
C  Omer Simeon, Johnny Dodds
D  Zutty Singleton, Baby Dodds
Question #24
A  Down and Out Blues
B  Crazy Blues
C  Down the Dirt Road Blues
D  Un Poco Loco
Question #26
A  piano style piano playing
B  trumpet style piano
C  Harlem Ragtime
D  trombone style
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  Written arrangements
C  Homophonic texture
D  Collective Improvisation
Question #34
A  Joe (King) Oliver
B  Sidney Bechet
C  Jelly Roll Morton
D  Freddie Keppard
Question #35
A  The Creole Jazz Band/1923
B  Spike’s Seven Pods of Pepper/1922
C  The Red Hot Peppers/1928
D  The Original Dixieland Jazz Band/1917
Question #36
A  Will Smith
B  Mamie Smith
C  Clara Smith
D  Bessie Smith
Question #37
A  They attracted no spectators
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 discouraged improvisation
Question #38
A  John Robichaux
B  Joe Oliver
C  Freddie Keppard
D  Buddy Bolden
Question #39
A  The Devil’s Throat
B  The French Quarter
C  Storyville
D  Hell’s Kitchen
Question #40
A  The Missouri territory
B  The Mississippi Delta
C  The Florida badlands
D  The Texas panhandle
Question #41
A  Harmonic sophistication
B  Polyphonic texture
C  Rhythmic sophistication
D  Frequent use of notation
Question #42
A  Stephen Foster
B  Irving Berlin
C  Scott Joplin
D  John Philip Sousa
Question #46
A  the first jazz performance
B  the first jazz recording
C  the word jazz began to be applied to a musical style
D  the first jazz criticism
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  syncopation
B  tempo
C  meter
D  swing
Question #49
A  rhythm
B  swing
C  tempo
D  meter