Week 1 — Quiz (auto-graded) · The Map

Course: MUS 156 Music Theory I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 1 of 16 (Week 1) · two sessions per week
Objectives tested: SLO 1 (read and notate pitch) · SLO 7 (name what you hear — here, name what you can picture)
Points: 10 (10 × 1) · Group: Quizzes (lowest 2 of 14 dropped) · Due: the end of Week 1 · online, 15-minute timer, 1 attempt, closed to AI.

This is the human-readable quiz with its vetted answer key and feedback. The import-ready QTI is rendered by the build system from _build/banks/lu-01.json, which also holds this unit's 15 exam-pool items (idents k3lu01x01–x15) — those test the same concepts with different stems, feed the midterm, and never appear on this quiz. Every item below is answerable from text alone; no images required.

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Blueprint

The table below maps each item to its type, concept, and objective.

#	Type	Concept(s)	Objective
1	Multiple choice	Octave designation — middle C	SLO 1
2	Multiple choice	Letter names cycle A–G	SLO 1
3	Multiple choice	White-key half steps (keyboard map)	SLO 1
4	Multiple choice	Whole step	SLO 1
5	Matching	The five accidentals	SLO 1
6	Multiple choice	Enharmonic spelling	SLO 7
7	True / False	Enharmonic ≠ same written note	SLO 7
8	Multiple choice	Sharps on white keys (E♯)	SLO 1
9	Multiple choice	The grand staff	SLO 1
10	Multiple choice	Ledger lines	SLO 1

No trick questions; every distractor targets a misconception named in the Week 1 outline (octave numbers changing at A, sharp-means-black-key, enharmonic-means-equal, staff-as-tilted-piano).

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Questions, key, and feedback

Q1 (MC). A singer wants to notate the G just above middle C. In scientific pitch labeling, that note is —

• A. G3
• B. G5
• C. G4 ✅
• D. A4

Feedback: Scientific labels number octaves from each C upward; middle C opens octave 4, so nearby notes above it share the 4.

Q2 (MC). The seven note letters end at G. Keep climbing one more step — what letter do you write?

• A. A ✅
• B. H
• C. G♯
• D. C

Feedback: Music recycles only seven letters, A through G, so the cycle restarts at A the moment G is passed.

Q3 (MC). Two neighboring white keys have no black key between them. B paired with which letter forms one such spot?

• A. A
• B. D
• C. G
• D. C ✅

Feedback: B-C and E-F are the keyboard's two built-in half steps — the white-key pairs with no black key separating them.

Q4 (MC). From D4, travel one whole step higher. You arrive at —

• A. D♯4
• B. E4 ✅
• C. E♭4
• D. F4

Feedback: A whole step equals two half steps, so D4 skips past the D♯/E♭ key and lands on E4.

Q5 (Matching). Pair every accidental with the change it makes to a written note.

Answer bank: pushes the pitch up one half step · pulls the pitch down one half step · wipes out whatever alteration came before · pushes the pitch up two half steps · pulls the pitch down two half steps

• Sharp (♯) → pushes the pitch up one half step ✅
• Flat (♭) → pulls the pitch down one half step ✅
• Natural (♮) → wipes out whatever alteration came before ✅
• Double sharp (𝄪) → pushes the pitch up two half steps ✅
• Double flat (𝄫) → pulls the pitch down two half steps ✅

Feedback: Sharps raise and flats lower by a half step, doubles do it twice over, and the natural erases any of them.

Q6 (MC). E♭5 has a twin spelled with a sharp — one key, two names. Which spelling is it?

• A. D♯4
• B. E♯5
• C. C♯5
• D. D♯5 ✅

Feedback: Enharmonic spellings name one sound two ways: the black key between D and E can be written D♯ or E♭ in the same octave.

Q7 (True/False). Since C♯4 and D♭4 come out of the same piano lever, a copyist may treat them as a single written note.

• True
• False ✅

Feedback: Sharing a sound does not merge two spellings — C♯4 and D♭4 remain distinct written notes with different jobs in different keys.

Q8 (MC). One of these spellings secretly points at a white key. Which?

• A. F♭4 ✅
• B. G♯4
• C. D♯5
• D. A♭3

Feedback: Because E-F sit a half step apart, F♭ drops onto the white key E — accidentals can land on white keys, not just black ones.

Q9 (MC). A brace at the left margin ties two staves into a grand staff. What exactly does it join?

• A. two identical bass staves, the lower one sounding an octave down
• B. a sideways drawing of the keyboard, one printed line per white key
• C. a treble staff on top, a bass staff underneath, and a gap where middle C lives ✅
• D. one tall eleven-line staff needing no clef anywhere

Feedback: The grand staff stacks treble over bass, and middle C floats on its own little line in the space between the two.

Q10 (MC). A bass line sinks beneath the staff. What does the engraver add so those pitches still read clearly?

• A. a tiny extra clef printed beside each low note
• B. short added strokes — ledger lines — that extend the staff downward ✅
• C. shrunken noteheads that signal off-staff pitches
• D. a downward arrow drawn under the lowest staff line

Feedback: Ledger lines are mini staff-line extensions, letting notation continue above or below the five printed lines.

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Answer key (quick reference)

The table below lists each item's correct response.

Q	Answer
1	C
2	A
3	D
4	B
5	Sharp (♯) → pushes the pitch up one half step · Flat (♭) → pulls the pitch down one half step · Natural (♮) → wipes out whatever alteration came before · Double sharp (𝄪) → pushes the pitch up two half steps · Double flat (𝄫) → pulls the pitch down two half steps
6	D
7	False
8	A
9	C
10	B

Quality gate (machine-checked): exactly one correct option per single-answer item; the multiple-choice key sequence C A D B D A C B carries no run longer than two and no positional lean; option lengths balanced within each item; every spelling claim verified against the course theory reference by the correctness gate; no item tests material from a later unit; no stem or scenario reuses the tutorial, practice, chapter, studio, assignment, or exam-pool surfaces (leakage-checked mechanically at build time).

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Item-bank note (instructor-facing)

The ten quiz items above carry idents k3lu01q01–k3lu01q10 in _build/banks/lu-01.json, each tagged with its ledger concept_ids and objective. The same bank holds k3lu01x01–k3lu01x15: fifteen exam-pool items on the same twelve Week 1 concepts with fully different stems (zero text overlap — the leakage gate checks). The midterm draws from the pool, never from the live quiz.

Canvas placement block

canvas_object    = Quizzes::Quiz
title            = "Week 1 Quiz — The Map"
assignment_group = "Quizzes"
points_possible  = 10
grading_type     = points
time_limit       = 15
allowed_attempts = 1
shuffle_answers  = true
due              = the end of Week 1
published        = true
access_note      = "Closed to AI — this one is just you and the map. The proctored midterm works the same way."

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