QUESTION 1 : Barkley cites rhythmic speech as being manifested in all of the areas of African-American culture except:
a. preaching
b. funk
c. signifying
d. scatting
QUESTION 2 : "Hip-hop" was originally used to refer to:
a. a style of dance
b. background music for rapping
c. rapping
d. all of the above
QUESTION 3 : Clive Campbell used the stage name:
a. Grandmaster Flash
b. Flavor Flave
c. Kool Herc
d. DMC
QUESTION 4 : Kool Herc derived the idea of "toasting" over records from his hometown of:
a. London
b. The Bronx
c. Kingston, Jamaica
d. Chicago, Illinois
QUESTION 5 " Kool-Herc initially used what type of records as the background for rap?
a. reggae
b. funk
c. blues
d. jazz
QUESTION 6 : The term "break dancing" originates from:
a. the idea that dancers risked breaking bones with their acrobatic moves
b. people would dance as a break from the difficulty of their lives
c. the sections of a song between vocal choruses for which dancers saved their moves
d. all of the above
QUESTION 7 : Kool Herc used two copies of the same record on two turntables to:
a. keep the record on an endless loop
b. repeat the break section of the record
c. scratch
d. all of the above
QUESTION 8 : The technique of scratching was developed by:
a. Kool Herc
b. Africa Bambaataa
c. Grandmaster Flash
d. Sugarhill Gang
QUESTION 9 : Grandmaster Flash used his technical training from a vocational school to build a cue monitor that allowed him to hear one record while the audience heard another.
True
False
QUESTION 10 : The first commercially successful rap record was by:
a. Grandmaster Flash
b. Sugarhill Gang
c. Africa Bambaataa
d. Cold Crush Brothers
QUESTION 11 : The birth of rap's popularity corresponded with a return to segregation in radio programming.
True
False
QUESTION 12 : Grandmaster Flash's "The Message"
a. was one of the first records to make extensive use of samples
b. was one of the first rap records with social commentary
c. was voted single of the year in the Village Voice and Rolling Stone
d. both B and C
QUESTION 13 : Run DMC:
a. fused Rock and Rap
b. collaborated with Aerosmith
c. were commercially successful in the 1980s
d. All of the above
QUESTION 14 : Barkley calls which of the following people "the first superstar of rap"?
a. Run DMC
b. LL Cool J
c. The Beastie Boys
d. Grandmaster Flash
QUESTION 15 : Of the following who is not a rap group or artist that attained commercial success in the 1980s.
a. Run D.M.C.
b. The Furious Five
c. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
d. The Beastie Boys
QUESTION 16 : The record "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" was by:
a. N.W.A.
b. Public Enemy
c. Grandmaster Flash
d. Beastie Boys
QUESTION 17 : In the learning module, which poet/musician do I list as doing work that proceeded rap but has a connection to it?
a. Langston Hughes
b. Gil Scot Heron
c. Le Roi Jones
d. Maya Angelou
QUESTION 18 : In the context of this section, syndesis describes:
a. sampling
b. borrowing musical elements from earlier works
c. a long tradition in African culture
d. all of the above
QUESTION 19 : In 1998 rap became the biggest selling genre of music in the U.S.
True
False
QUESTION 20 : Of the following which is a term to describe African/poet musicians.
a. griots
b. paralinguists
c. both A and B
d. none of the above