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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. George Martin states that pop music is not a step down from classical, for what reason?
(a) Pop music generates much more revenue than classical.
(b) Pop music attracts larger audiences than classical.
(c) Classical music is formulaic, while pop music is freeform.
(d) Schubert and Beethoven wrote for the masses, creating pop music for their times.

2. Who woke George Martin in the middle of the night, at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Neil Aspinall.
(b) Paul McCartney.
(c) Mal Evans.
(d) Brian Epstein.

3. George Martin explains that, in 1954, what was true about singer/songwriters?
(a) Singer/songwriters were asked to choose one specialty or the other.
(b) Singers were discouraged from singing their own compositions.
(c) Singers only sang their own songs.
(d) Singer/songwriters were a rare breed, less common than in the late 1970s.

4. What, according to George Martin, is the real wonder of music and orchestration?
(a) Everyone hears notes differently.
(b) Music is the common language of all people.
(c) You can actually paint sound.
(d) Notes on the page become sound in the ear.

5. George Martin guesses he was how old when his family got a piano?
(a) Nine.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Twelve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason did George Martin offer, in Chapter 1, for marrying his first wife, Sheena?

2. What was the profession of George Martin's father?

3. According to Chapter 2, what was George Martin's first real love in music?

4. Early in the Beatles' saga, who was the assistant to Neil Aspinall?

5. When George Martin was a child, his grandmother lived where?

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