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Afro-Latin American Music

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following describes the coronation of the black king who would speak on behalf of the slaves?

a)

Maracatu

b)

Timbuctu

c)

Call and Response

d)

All of the above

2.

A Latin American double headed drum instrument made of a hallow tree trunk with patches made up of animal skin.

a)

Bombo

b)

Cajom

c)

Chajchas

d)

Quena

3.

It is a melancholic Afro-American music or vocal form typically composed of a twelve-bar sequence.

a)

Soul

b)

Spiritual

c)

Call and Response

d)

Blues

4.

This is a vibrant and playful dance between two people having a very rich potential for expression, improvisation, and connection and is danced in both modern and traditional styles.

a)

Cumbia

b)

Cha Cha

c)

Tango

d)

Reggae

5.

It is a ballroom dance in 4/4 time signature, with alteration of two slow and two quick steps.

a)

Foxtrot

b)

Cha Cha

c)

Rumba

d)

Paso Doble

6.

These are shakers traditionally made of gourd with beans, seeds, or small pebbles inside and played by shaking it.

a)

Chajchas

b)

Maracas

c)

Zamponas

d)

Claves

7.

It is a traditional vocal and couple's dance from Spain and is danced to the type of music typically played in bullfights.

a)

Foxtrot

b)

Cha Cha

c)

Rumba

d)

Paso Doble

8.

It is a kind of music incorporating elements of rhythm and blues and gospel music, popularized by African-Americans.

a)

Soul

b)

Spiritual

c)

Call and Response

d)

Blues

9.

It is a type of vocal and dance with fast rhythmic ballroom dance of Latin American origin with a basic pattern of three steps and a shuffle.

a)

Foxtrot

b)

Cha Cha

c)

Rumba

d)

Paso Doble

10.

It is a type of vocal and dance music of Latin America with Colombian origin, similar to salsa and uses guitars, accordions, bass guitar, and percussion.

a)

Cumbia

b)

Cha Cha

c)

Rumba

d)

Paso Doble

11.

Afro-Latin American music is characterized by soft beat.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Call and Response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Charango is a small ten-stringed guitar, traditionally made from armadillo shell and is one of the primary instruments used in Latin American music performance.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Rumba is a style of popular music with a strongly accented subsidiary beat, originating from Jamaica. It evolved in the late 1960s from ska and other local variations on calypso and rhythm and blues, and became widely known in the 1970s through the work of Bob Marley.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Cha Cha is a rhythmic dance with Spanish and African elements originated in Cuba.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

It is the ghenre of African music that fuses the Afro-Caribbean styles of the marcha, reggae and calypso.

a)

a. apala

b)

b. axe

c)

c. jit

d)

d. jive

17.

What country where Chacha originated?

a)

a. Columbia

b)

b. Cuba

c)

c. China

d)

d. Congo

18.

What is the most expressive dance in Latin America?

a)

a. Reggae

b)

b. Cha cha

c)

c. Tango

d)

d. Rumba

19.

It is best known proponent who hails in Jamaica where Bob Marleyknown.

a)

a. Rumba

b)

b. Cha cha

c)

c. Tango

d)

d. Reggae

20.

She hails as the Queen of Bossa nova in the Philippines.

a)

a. Rachel Ann Go

b)

b. Charice Pempengco

c)

c. Sarah Geronimo

d)

d. Sitti Navarro

21.

The English term of this dance is double step.

a)

a. Paso Doble

b)

b. Paso Redoba

c)

c. Paso Relletos

d)

d. Paso Beto

22.

What is the dominant language in Latin America?

a)

a. English

b)

b. French

c)

c. Portuguese

d)

d. Spanish

23.

It is a Social dance with marked influence from Cuba and Puerto Rico.

a)

a. Samba

b)

b. Salsa

c)

c. Son

d)

d. Shekere

24.

Which of the following instruments is not a membranophone?

a)

a. Body percussion

b)

b. Fulani

c)

c. Djembe

d)

d. Talking drum

25.

Which of the following is not belong with Latin American dance?

a)

a. Cha cha

b)

b. Jive

c)

c. Samba

d)

d. Tango

26.

This term used to describe the fusion of West African with black American Music. What is this type of Afro-Latin music?

a)

Afrobeat

b)

Apala

c)

Axe

d)

Samba

27.

Agogo is an instrument from Apala, a musical genre from Nigeria in the Yoruba tribal style to wake up the worshippers after fasting during the Muslim holy feast of Ramadan. What type of musical instrument is an Agogo?

a)

Wind Instrument

b)

String Instrument

c)

Percussion Instrument

d)

None of the above

28.

Shekere is also an instrument from the musical genre, Apala. Shekere is a wind instrument.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

29.

Which of the 6 Afro-Latin music is a popular form of South African Music featuring a lively and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, a form of swing dance?

a)

Samba

b)

Reggae

c)

Jive

d)

Jinx

30.

Salsa is an example of Afro-Cuban music.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

31.

How influential is music to our culture?

(5 points)

4 lines
32.

The phrase "Afro-Latino" refers to which group of people?

a)

People of Black ancestry, living in Latin America

b)

People who moved from Africa to Cuba in the past 10 years

c)

People who moved from Latin America to Africa

d)

People of Black ancestry who were from the U.S. but now live in Mexico

33.

When someone talks about their ancestor they are talking about their...

a)

family member from the past

b)

family friend

c)

family's ethnicity

d)

family's culture

34.

When someone says, "I am a descendant of my great grandma," what do they mean?

a)

They are not blood related to their great grandma

b)

They are directly related to their great grandma

c)

Their great grandma was adopted

d)

They were adopted into the family

35.

The Spanish colonized regions such as South America and the Caribbean.


What does the word colonized mean?

a)

To make treaties with the native populations

b)

To send people to a new place and take political control

c)

To create a new religion

d)

To destroy land

36.

Samba, Rumba, Salsa, and Bachata are all examples of what in Latin America?

a)

Religions

b)

Languages

c)

Music

d)

Culture

37.

Many Latin American rulers tried to segregate Afro-Latino music from popular music. However, many styles of music actually integrated the two cultures.


What does integrate mean?

a)

To keep apart

b)

To separate

c)

To bring together

d)

To divide

38.

The demographics of Latin America vary with many people identifying as Spanish and Indigenous heritage.


What does the word demographics mean based on this sentence?

a)

Populations

b)

Languages

c)

Religions

d)

Cultures

39.

African ceremonies, singing, dancing, clapping, and beating of drums have essential roles even in religious expressions and political events.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

40.

Pop music is generally comprised of music for entertainment of large number of audience, whether on radio or in live performances.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

41.

Popular music literally means famous music around the world.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

42.

Music has always play an important role in the daily lives of Africans. It can be for work, religion, ceremonies, or even communication.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

43.

The Latin American music is the product of three major influences of indigenous Spanish, Portuguese and America.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

44.

African music is a result of the collective cultural and musical variety of more than 50 ethnic divisions of the continent.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

45.

Before the arrival of the Spanish, Portuguese, and other European colonizers, the natives were found to be using local drums and percussion instruments.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

46.

Popular music is mainly influenced by America.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

47.

For the African ceremonies, singing, dancing, clapping, and beating of drums have essential roles even in religious expressions and political events.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

48.

The wide influence of African music spread throughout the world. It permeated contemporary American, Latin American, and European styles.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

49.

A vocal form of African music, that is like the question and answer sequence in human communication.

a)

Maracatu

b)

Call and Response

c)

Spiritual

d)

Soul

50.

The most popular performer of all time and known to be "The King of Pop" .

a)

Elvis Presley

b)

Elton John

c)

Michael Jackson

d)

Stevie Wonder

51.

It is a Jamaican musical style that was strongly influence by the Island's traditional mento music.

a)

Zouk

b)

Salsa

c)

Reggae

d)

Were

52.

A vocal form of African music, that is like the question and answer sequence in human communication.

a)

Maracatu

b)

Call and Response

c)

Spiritual

d)

Soul

53.

The following are the popular Latin American music except for _______.

a)

Samba

b)

Son

c)

Salsa

d)

Jive

54.

The most popular performer of all time and known to be "The King of Pop" .

a)

Elvis Presley

b)

Elton John

c)

Michael Jackson

d)

Stevie Wonder

55.

The ______ family pioneered Latin jazz in Manila.

a)

De Los Santos

b)

Katindig

c)

Legaspi

d)

Mansueta

56.

This new form combined ethnic instrumentation with electronic accompaniment, while presenting themes or issues of Philippine society and the environment.

a)

Philippine Pop Music

b)

Philippine Rock

c)

Philippine Jazz

d)

Philippine Alternative Folk Music

57.

He is known in his song "Mga Kababayan".

a)

Francis Magalona

b)

Andrew E.

c)

Gloc 9

58.

The term used to describe the fusion of West African with Black American music

a)

Apala

b)

Axe

c)

Afrobeat

d)

Jit

59.

Latin America music styles are the product of three major influence.

Choose three answers.

a)

Australian

b)

African

c)

Indigenous

d)

European

60.

A classification of traditional African instrument, which produce sounds from the vibration of strings.

a)

Membranophones

b)

Chordophones

c)

Membranophones

d)

Idiophones