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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Early in the Beatles' saga, who was the assistant to Neil Aspinall?
(a) Brian Epstein.
(b) Mal Evans.
(c) George Martin.
(d) George Harrison.

2. In what year was George Martin born?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1926.

3. When George Martin was a child, his grandmother lived where?
(a) Ipswich.
(b) Holloway.
(c) Paris.
(d) Liverpool.

4. 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 the only water supply was a sink on the landing.
(c) The flat had electricity but no running water.
(d) The flat had no electricity and the only water supply was a sink on the landing.

5. Chapter 1 begins with George Martin waking up where?
(a) A Paris hotel room.
(b) A house he purchased in London.
(c) A recording studio.
(d) His childhood home.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 3, George Martin went to Abbey Road to visit which studio?

2. Who was the head of Parlophone, whom George Martin met for an interview at the beginning of Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 1, Eric Harrison advised George Martin to do what?

4. As explained by George Martin in Chapter 2, how is orchestration different from composition?

5. George Martin guesses he was how old when his family got a piano?

(see the answer key)

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