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Unit 2 Quiz (Grades 3-5)

Total questions: 55

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the book "All Are Welcome" about?

a)

a school

b)

a country

c)

a house

d)

a glass of lemonade

2.

In the song "All Are Welcome," what is the last line of each verse?

a)

"All are welcome here."

b)

"We all belong here."

c)

"We'll play music, we'll make art."

d)

"Gather now, let's all take part."

3.

"No matter how you ________________

What you wear when you play.

Or if you come from far away..."


What is the missing part of this song?

a)

joined us here

b)

begin your song

c)

start your day

d)

want to pray

4.

What does the pitch do in the first line of the song "All Are Welcome?"


Hint: The first line begins with "No matter how you....."

a)

It slowly moves up and then goes back down.

b)

It starts high and then moves lower.

c)

It starts low and ends high.

d)

It repeats for most of the line.

5.

What regular household object did we spend time practicing on to make music?

a)

spoons

b)

hair brush

c)

pillows

d)

pencils and pens

6.

What does it mean to DECODE sounds that you hear?

a)

You shut your ears so you can't hear the sounds.

b)

You turn the sound into rhythm syllables, for example, du or du-day.

c)

You echo a sound after the teacher, trying to do it exactly the same way..

d)

You try to figure out if they are high or low sounds.

7.

Who does Ms. Ogle call on to help you decode the sounds in our lessons?

a)

her dogs

b)

some students that look very much like Ms. Ogle.

c)

a robot named Bob.

d)

a stuffed animal named Bearlioz.

8.

Who do we celebrate during National Hispanic Heritage Month?

a)

people from Asia

b)

people from Spanish-speaking cultures

c)

the first people who lived in North America

d)

people who speak French

9.

Who was known as the "Queen of Salsa?"

a)

Beyonce

b)

Ms. Ogle

c)

Celia Cruz

d)

Drum Dream Girl

10.

What is 'salsa?'

a)

a popular dance music from the area of Cuba and Puerto Rico, developed in New York in the 1960's.

b)

a type of music from South America from the 1800's

c)

music that comes from French speakers in New Orleans

d)

slow, sad music from the Indigenous people of Latin America.

11.

What is the best way to describe the basic step of salsa dancing?

a)

Right foot alternates with left arm, and left foot alternates with right arm.

b)

You move in steps that are grouped into sets of 5.

c)

Right foot-together-left foot-together

d)

You stand mostly still, and your arms do a lot of movement.

12.

Which word describes salsa music and dance?

a)

very quiet

b)

slow

c)

energetic

d)

ancient

13.

What do you call somebody who plays the piano?

a)

piano dancer

b)

pianola

c)

pianist

d)

pianer

14.

Who was Teresa Carreno?

a)

a girl from Arizona who dreamed about playing the drums

b)

a singer who sang salsa music

c)

a girl who sang opera

d)

a piano player from Venezuela who played for Abraham Lincoln

15.

What is a waltz?

a)

Dance music from Greece. It has a meter of 5.

b)

Dance music that was popular during the Civil War. It has a meter of 3.

c)

An indigenous musical instrument like a flute

d)

A type of drum used in salsa music

16.

What is the name of a person who thinks up their own music in their head and writes it down for others to play or sing?

a)

composer

b)

arranger

c)

publicist

d)

pianist

17.

What is a metronome?

a)

It is a virtual xylophone.

b)

It decodes music for you.

c)

It is a computer program that plays music that you have written.

d)

It helps you keep the steady beat at different speeds (or tempos).

18.

Which group of people did NOT contribute to Latin American music?

a)

Cowboys from Texas from before the Civil War

b)

European immigrants

c)

Indigenous people

d)

African people who had been enslaved

19.

What are some examples of genres of Latin American music that we studied?

a)

polka, tsakonikos, waltz

b)

trap, hip hop, rap

c)

mariachi, rachera, merengue

d)

flute, drums, singing

20.

What Mexican holiday celebrates loved ones who've passed away?

a)

Dia de Muertos

b)

Halloween

c)

Diwali

d)

Dia de los genres

21.

What does NOT happen during Day of the Dead?

a)

There are parades.

b)

There are family gatherings with food.

c)

People decorate sugar skulls with feathers, beads, and icing.

d)

There's a lot of crying. It is a sad holiday.

22.

What country does the genre mariachi come from?

a)

Cuba

b)

Mexico

c)

Puerto Rico

d)

Jamaica

23.

What are indigenous people?

a)

People who are the first to live somewhere.

b)

People who are a mixture of different cultures.

c)

People from Latin America.

d)

People who have been enslaved.

24.

Musical Notation means...

a)

highs and lows

b)

music that has been written down using musical symbols

c)

music that is composed by one person and written down by somebody else

d)

a steady beat that gradually changes

25.

What are lyrics?

a)

the notes written down

b)

the symbols that we use to describe music

c)

the sounds that make the music interesting

d)

the words in a song

26.

What should you see at the very very top of music notation, above everything else?

a)

the pianist's name

b)

the tempo

c)

the composer's name

d)

the title

27.

What does a repeat sign look like?

a)

it's a very curvy symbol

b)

there are some curvy lines and some straight lines

c)

two vertical lines and two dots

d)

three dots and a vertical line

28.

What should you do if you are taking the repeat sign, but you don't see the first sign that you are supposed to repeat back to?

a)

you use your best guess where it should be

b)

you go to the beginning of the music

c)

you just don't repeat, you keep going

d)

you count back three measures and repeat just that part

29.

What has to either go up, go down, or stay the same?

a)

a composer

b)

mariachi

c)

a pitch

d)

a genre

30.

What is the part of the music that you usually remember? Also known as the "tune?"

a)

rhythm

b)

form

c)

melody

d)

harmony

31.

What animal did Ms. Ogle meet last year and take a picture of? (He was rescued by an organization that saved him.)

a)

a spider

b)

a snake

c)

an owl

d)

a bat

32.

Which statement is NOT true about bats?

a)

In China, they are considered to bring luck.

b)

They often get sick from eating bugs that have been sprayed by humans.

c)

They come out at night.

d)

They like to be around people.

33.

If a pitch moves by _________, that is the smallest amount it can move.

a)

step

b)

skip

c)

leap

d)

jump

34.

When we are trying to figure out the pitch of a note, we look at the ______________ of the note.

a)

head

b)

leg

c)

stem

d)

arm

35.

A ___________ note is in-between two lines.

a)

line

b)

space

c)

step

d)

skip

36.

A line note ____________________________________.

a)

sits on top of a line.

b)

has the line going through the middle of the note.

c)

is right next to the line.

d)

is the same as a space note.

37.

Which statement is true of the song "Bats?"

a)

It wasn't really about bats.

b)

It used repeating pitches and pitches that moved by step and by skip.

c)

It had pitches that moved by step and skip but had no repeating pitches.

d)

It had pitches that repeated and moved by step but didn't have any pitches that moved by skip.

38.

What was our assignment for the song "Bats?"

a)

mark which pitches repeated and which ones moved by step and skips

b)

sing it using flipgrid

c)

turn in a few sentences how it made us feel

d)

perform it using the virtual xylophone

39.

Which genre of music comes from Jamaica?

a)

Cha cha cha

b)

Mambo

c)

Salsa

d)

Reggae

40.

Which country is NOT from Latin America?

a)

Trinidad and Tobago

b)

Dominican Republic

c)

Panama

d)

Crete

41.

In the music "Danse Macabre," by Camille Saint-Saens, which group does NOT have their own melody?

a)

witches

b)

skeletons

c)

goblins

d)

ghosts

42.

What is 'Sevens?'

a)

a song

b)

a hand-clapping game

c)

a rhythm we learned to decode

d)

musical notation

43.

How many different patterns are in 'Sevens?'

a)

4

b)

5

c)

6

d)

7

44.

In 'Sevens,' what do you do in pattern #1?

a)

pat-pat-pat-pat-pat-pat-pat

b)

pat-clap-pat-clap-pat-clap-pat

c)

pat-clap-snap-pat-snap-clap-clap

d)

pat-cross-pat-clap-pat-pat-pat

45.

After hearing the story "The Monster in the Closet," you were supposed to_____________________________.

a)

write your own spooky story and add sound effects

b)

learn the song and sing it

c)

play the song using the virtual xylophone

d)

make up some body percussion

46.

How many lines are on a staff?

a)

4

b)

5

c)

6

d)

7

47.

What is the "stick" part (the vertical line) of a note called?

a)

stem

b)

head

c)

notation

d)

dot

48.

What is the "ladder" called that music notes go on top of?

a)

sheet music

b)

notation

c)

staff

d)

ladder

49.

Which statement is NOT true of a note head?

a)

It can be filled in.

b)

It can be empty (or not colored in).

c)

It shows the pitch of a note by its location on the staff.

d)

It is a vertical line.

50.

What is a ledger line?

a)

A line added to the staff when you need to go higher or lower than the staff allows

b)

The lowest line on the music staff

c)

Any line on the music staff that has a note on it

d)

A space

51.

How many space notes are there in a staff?

a)

2

b)

3

c)

4

d)

5

52.

How many different line notes can fit on a regular music staff?

a)

3

b)

4

c)

5

d)

6

53.

How do we read music notation?

a)

Bottom to top

b)

From right to left

c)

From left to right, like in a book

d)

Sometimes from left to right, and sometimes from right to left

54.

Where do you turn in your music assignments?

a)

Ms. Ogle's Seesaw classroom

b)

Ms. Ogle's Google Classroom

c)

Email Ms. Ogle

d)

Send them to Ms. Ogle with a pigeon

55.

Which one do you prefer to do the most?

a)

sing

b)

body percussion

c)

play instruments from the music kit

d)

dance or move