Quiz 1

1. __ was a radio DJ w/ a patter style delivery who influenced early hip hop MCs.
a. Jocko Henderson
2. Clyde Stubblefields drum break from Funky Drummer is one of the most
sampled rhythmic breaks in hip hop.
a. True
3. Which of the following is NOT one of the 4 elements of hip hop?
a. food
4. A musical phrase of pattern that repeats is called:
a. All these answers (vamp, riff, ostinato, hook)
5. Which of the following record companies was NOT an R&B label from the 1960s?
a. OKeh
6. Race records were marketed to white audiences?
a. False
7. Hip hop and rap are synonymous.
a. False
8. A song that is a hit in more than one segment of the music market is called:
a. a crossover
9. ___ is religious music of African-Americans that emerged in urban centers during
the early decades of the 20th centruy.
a. Gospel
10. Meter is the speed of a music work.
a. False
Quiz 2
1. Sylvia Robinson had an early career as an MC.
a. False
2. The building of the Cross Bronx Expressway negatively impacted neighborhoods
in the Bronx.
a. True
3. Sylvia Robinson was the founder and owner of
a. Sugar Hill Records
4. The Black Spades were a Black Power Movement organization.
a. False
5. Lady B is a radio DJ in
a. Philadelphia
6. The movement of African-Americans from the south to the north in the first half of
the twentieth century is called
a. The Great Migration
7. The members of the group Sequence were all women.
a. True
8. Lady B is thought to be the first DJ to play Planet Rock on the radio.
a. True
9. Dis (as in dis rap) is slang for district.
a. False
10. An African American game of ritualized insults is known as
a. the dozens
Quiz 3
1. The term merry-go-round is associated w/which of the following figures?
a. Kool Herc

2. A tag is written nickname of a graffiti writer.

a. True
3. Funky 4+1 was:
a. both A & B (first group w/a female MC and first group on live
television)
4. Graffiti writing on subway cars is illegal.
a. True
5. To cover a train w/as many subway cars w/graffiti as possible is known as:
a. bombing
6. B-boying is highly choreographed.
a. False
7. Sampling & interpolation are the same thing.
a. False
8. Blondie is known as a hip-hop group.
a. False
9. Taki 183 and DONDI were DJs.
a. False
10. Which two hip hop figures does Blondie name-check in the song Rapture?
a. Fab Five Freddy & Grandmaster Flash
Quiz #4
1. _ is considered the inventor of scratching.
a. Grand Wizard Theodore
2. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were the first hip hop group inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
a. True
3. To freestyle means to improvise.
a. True
4. A jeli is an African storyteller-musician.
a. True
5. A _ instrumental-track version of a popular track, often placed on the flip side of a
single, consisting of bass and drum.
a. Dub
6. Match the correct term w/its definition
a. Syncopation - a placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where
they wouldnt normally occur
b. Loop - repeating section of sound material
c. Scratch - rotating and applying pressure to a record back and forth
against the needle to create a rhythmic pattern
d. Beat-juggling - creating a new rhythmical composition by using
two records and manipulating the arrangements of the elements (drum sounds,
etc.)
e. Call and response - a performance practice in which a singer or
instrumentalist makes a musical statement which is answered by another soloist,
instrumentalist or group
Quiz 5
1. Planet Rock influenced later musical genres such as house and trance.
a. True

2. Which of the following figures was mentioned in the song How We Gonna Make
the Black Nation Rise?
a. all of the above : MLK, Martin, E
3. Sampling and interpolation are the same thing.
a. False
4. A sample is an excerpt from a musical recording that is used in another artists
recording.
a. True
5. Who invented the phonograph?
a. Thomas Edison
6. What is the subject matter of the song Strange Fruit?
a. Lynching
7. The Roland TR-808 is a drum synthesizer.
a. True
8. A device that creates sounds electronically through the use of voltage-controlled
amplifiers and filters is called a :
a. Synthesizer
9. _ was a WWII invention which was put to civilian use in recording after the war.
a. Magnetic tape
10. Only one member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five actually performs
on The Message.
a. True