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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Love Me Do" hit what number in the charts?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Five.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) One.

2. In Chapter 7, George Martin reflects that what decision cost him millions of pounds?
(a) Turning down an offer to buy a share in Dick Clark Music.
(b) Refusing to publish the Beatles' music worldwide.
(c) Selling his rights to the Beatles catalog to Michael Jackson.
(d) Turning down an offer to buy a share in Dick James Music.

3. How much were the Beatles to receive per record in royalties, per their original contract with Parlophone?
(a) One-half pound.
(b) One penny.
(c) Two pennies.
(d) One pound.

4. What sort of horn is featured in the Beatles song, "Penny Lane"?
(a) Piccolo trumpet.
(b) Pocket trumpet.
(c) Flugelhorn.
(d) Trombone.

5. Regarding the family flat where George Martin lived as a boy, which of the following is true?
(a) The flat had no electricity and no running water.
(b) The flat had electricity but no running water.
(c) The flat had no electricity and the only water supply was a sink on the landing.
(d) The flat had electricity but the only water supply was a sink on the landing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was George Martin's day job at the BBC Music Library, after he finished music school?

2. The Beatles first signed with which publisher in America?

3. At Abbey Road, what skills did George Martin realize were required to make recordings, in addition to technical abilities?

4. At what age did George Martin join his sister at a convent school?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does George Martin describe the collaborative writing style of John Lennon and Paul McCartney?

2. What were George Martin's early life experiences with the piano and performing in general?

3. Whom does George Martin consider to be his fairy godfather, and how did the two meet?

4. What was the danger behind the giggling fits of George Martin and Peter Sellers while recording comedy bits at the studio?

5. What was George Martin's first musical love, and what did he do to understand its construction, as described in Chapter 2?

6. How did the Beatles come to change drummers before achieving success and fame, letting Pete Best go in favor of Ringo Starr?

7. Relate one anecdote from George Martin's early career at Parlophone, as described in Chapter 3.

8. Briefly summarize George Martin's experience at the Guildhall School of Music.

9. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what were George Martin's criticisms of what he described as a lovely villa in Portugal?

10. Why does George Martin value the inability of the human voice to stay completely in tune?

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