Multiple Choice Test
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10 marks for each correct answer.
1. In what year was Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov born?

1852
1844
1979
1776

2. Where was Rimsky-Korsakov born?

Moscow, Russia
Budapest, Hungary
Tikhvin, Russia
Gesundheit, Germany

3. Sheherazade is based on what collection of stories?

Aesops Fables
The Stories of Mother Goose
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
The Thousand and One Nights

4. Besides music, what was Rimsky-Korsakovs other love?

The sea
Chinese food
The ladies
A 64oz Double Gulp

5. One repeating theme is heard at the beginning of the first, third, and fourth movements.  Rimsky-Korsakov credits this theme with holding the entire piece together.  On what instrument is that theme played?

Mandolin
Vibraphone
Cello
Violin

6. What is it called when a performer takes freedoms with the music in order to individualize it?

Improvisation
Interpretation
Dipsy-doing
Showing off

7. In the story, who is trying to kill Princess Sheherazade?

An evil sultan
The CIA
The second gunman on the grassy knoll
Spies from Communist China

8. What character does the violin cadenza represent?
The sultan
The witch
Princess Sheherazade
Princess Dorcus
9. At what age did Rimsky-Korsakov enter the naval academy?
22
12
34
5

10. In what year did Rimsky-Korsakov die?
1910
1856
1969
1908