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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. Why did George Martin ultimately agree, in 1976, to score the "Sergeant Pepper" film featuring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton?
(a) He desperately needed money.
(b) The Bee Gees asked him to do it.
(c) The Beatles asked him to do it.
(d) His wife reminded him that if someone else did the job, he wouldn't be there to defend the music's integrity.

2. In the movie, "Yellow Submarine", what sound effect did George Martin contrive for the enormous monster that sucked up the yellow submarine and, eventually, the movie screen?
(a) A dilruba.
(b) Piccolo trumpets.
(c) Orchestral music played backwards.
(d) Small strips of tape, cut apart and spliced in random order.

3. After completion of AIR's first studio, what sort of studio did George Martin next want to create?
(a) A total immersion studio.
(b) A traveling environment studio.
(c) A traveling immersion studio.
(d) A total environment studio.

4. In the 1950s studios had A&R men, meaning what?
(a) Acoustic and Reverberation men.
(b) Assimilation and Recruitment men.
(c) Artists and Repertoire men.
(d) Audio and Recording men.

5. In Chapter 12, George Martin reveals that he uses his collection of gold, silver, and platinum discs for what purpose?
(a) He sells them in order to maintain and upgrade his studios.
(b) They paper the walls of one room in his house.
(c) He donates them to music schools to inspire young people.
(d) They adorn the side walls of his shelving units.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1979, George Martin predicted the now-common change from analog to what sort of recording?

2. 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?

3. As stated in Chapter 8, in what year did George Martin make his first trip to America?

4. At the British Embassy in 1964, what did one Beatle fan do to Ringo Starr?

5. How does George Martin describe the result, when a recording is overcompressed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What inspired the Beatles to present "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" as a concept album?

2. Briefly describe the controversy surrounding John Lennon's comparison of the Beatles and Jesus.

3. Which is the only Beatles film not scored by George Martin, and why?

4. What, according to George Martin, is the best way to orchestrate for strings?

5. What sites did George Martin consider for AIR's second studio, a residential complex, and where was it ultimately constructed?

6. Under what circumstances did the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, die?

7. Why, as described in Chapter 10, did George Martin become increasingly frustrated with EMI?

8. Why did the creators of the James Bond film, "Live and Let Die", want someone other than songwriter Paul McCartney to sing the title song?

9. What does George Martin define as the golden treadmill?

10. Briefly summarize George Martin's predictions for the future, as of 1979, regarding the use of digital recording.

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