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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-15.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was George Martin's complaint, in Chapter 4, regarding a beautiful villa in Portugal?
(a) Curved walls that made him dizzy.
(b) Too much furniture.
(c) Lack of equipment for playing music.
(d) Poor acoustics.
2. In Chapter 1, George Martin wanted the Beatles to record two songs in which foreign language?
(a) German.
(b) Japanese.
(c) French.
(d) Italian.
3. How did the recording tape used at Capitol in 1958 differ from the tape used at Abbey Road?
(a) Capitol used half-inch tape to produce a three-track recording, while Abbey Road used quarter-inch tape to produce three tracks.
(b) Capitol used quarter-inch tape to produce a two-track recording, while Abbey Road used half-inch tape to produce three tracks.
(c) Capitol used one-inch tape to produce a three-track recording, while Abbey Road used half-inch tape to produce two tracks.
(d) Capitol used half-inch tape to produce a three-track recording, while Abbey Road used quarter-inch tape to produce two tracks.
4. In Chapter 10, which Beatle does George Martin describe as an aural Salvador Dali?
(a) George Harrison.
(b) Ringo Starr.
(c) John Lennon.
(d) Paul McCartney.
5. Why did George Martin ultimately agree, in 1976, to score the "Sergeant Pepper" film featuring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton?
(a) His wife reminded him that if someone else did the job, he wouldn't be there to defend the music's integrity.
(b) The Beatles asked him to do it.
(c) The Bee Gees asked him to do it.
(d) He desperately needed money.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 8, in George Martin's layer cake metaphor, what was the first layer in a four-track recording?
2. As explained in Chapter 7, why was George Martin first skeptical about the Beatles?
3. During the original contract between the Beatles and Parlophone, how many titles were the Beatles expected to record?
4. What record, produced by George Martin, was the first record taken to the moon?
5. While recording the twenty-four-bar climax for "A Day in the Life", George Martin told the orchestra to disobey a fundamental rule by doing what?
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