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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. Regarding orchestration, what does George Martin offer as the secret to good string writing?
(a) Writing for four parts, as if for four human voices.
(b) Writing as if for a piano, with parts for left and right hands.
(c) Writing all parts close to the piano's middle C.
(d) Writing a separate part for each musician.

2. Engelbert Humperdinck's single, "Release Me," prevented which double-A-side Beatles record from reaching number one?
(a) "Yesterday" and "Strawberry Fields".
(b) "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields".
(c) "Paperback Writer" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
(d) "Penny Lane" and "Paperback Writer".

3. The song, "Pepperland Laid Waste", appears on which Beatles album?"
(a) "Help!"
(b) "Sergeant Pepper".
(c) "Revolver".
(d) "Yellow Submarine".

4. In the recording industry, what does the acronym ADT stand for?
(a) Artificial double-tracking.
(b) Artificial double-tones.
(c) Auditory decibel tones.
(d) Auditory double-tracking.

5. While orchestrating the film, "The Family Way", what compromise did George Martin reach with John Boulting?
(a) They agreed to use a click track if they could not keep things synchronized manually.
(b) George Martin would score the film only if Cilla Black would sing the title song.
(c) If the recording session at the Boulting's Shepperton studio was lacking, another recording would be made at CTS.
(d) George Martin would score the film if Paul McCartney would write the title song.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Beatles associate died from an accidental overdose in August 1967?

2. Who found a solution to the noise problem caused by extra tracks multiplying hiss and crackle?

3. Which Beatles song was the first to feature other musicians, in addition to the four Beatles and George Martin?

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

5. George Martin wrote the musical score for which James Bond film?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss two innovations predicted by George Martin in Chapter 15 that have since become reality.

3. What album does George Martin consider to be the classic example of what can be achieved by a talented amateur with multi-track equipment?

4. What sorts of diversions did the Beatles create, in order to get in and out of their hotel rooms in the U.S.?

5. In the song, "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite", how did George Martin achieve his complex hurdy-gurdy effect?

6. How did Capitol Records come to take on the Beatles' records, even though they resisted at first?

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

8. Describe the early founding of AIR, Associated Independent Recording.

9. What is George Martin's explanation for the song, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", contrary to the popular theory that the song is about LSD?

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

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