Louis Armstrong: A Jazz Legend

Louis Armstrong: A Jazz Legend

Assessment

Interactive Video

Performing Arts

6th - 8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Jennifer Brown

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5 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Where did Louis Armstrong first learn to play a brass instrument?

In a local jazz club

In his school band

At the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs

From his father

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which band did Louis Armstrong join in 1922 that significantly boosted his career?

The Duke Ellington Orchestra

The Benny Goodman Band

Joe 'King' Oliver's Creole Jazz Band

The Count Basie Orchestra

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What vocal technique did Louis Armstrong popularize, which involves improvising sounds?

Beatboxing

Yodeling

Scat singing

Opera singing

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is NOT one of Louis Armstrong's most well-known songs?

What a Wonderful World

Bohemian Rhapsody

We Have All the Time in the World

When the Saints Go Marchin’ In

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who described Louis Armstrong as 'the beginning and end of music in America'?

Bing Crosby

Frank Sinatra

Duke Ellington

Ella Fitzgerald