Week 5 — Quiz (auto-graded) · Minor, Three Ways

Course: MUS 156 Music Theory I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 5 of 16 (Week 5) · two sessions per week
Objectives tested: SLO 2 (construct and identify minor keys, signatures, and scales) · SLO 7 (name what you hear — here, name the form from its fingerprints)
Points: 10 (10 × 1) · Group: Quizzes (lowest 2 of 14 dropped) · Due: the end of Week 5 · 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-05.json, which also holds this unit's 15 exam-pool items (idents k3lu05x01–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	Relative minor	SLO 2
2	Multiple choice	Parallel minor	SLO 2
3	Multiple choice	Minor key signatures	SLO 2
4	Multiple choice	Harmonic minor spelling	SLO 2
5	Matching	The three forms — recipes	SLO 2
6	Multiple choice	Raised ^7 in a passage (leading tone)	SLO 7
7	True / False	Relative ≠ parallel	SLO 2
8	Multiple choice	Scale-degree names	SLO 2
9	Multiple choice	Subtonic vs leading tone	SLO 2
10	Multiple choice	Do-based minor solfège	SLO 7

No trick questions; every distractor targets a misconception named in the Week 5 outline (relative/parallel confusion, the raise "belonging" in the signature, minor as structureless "sad major," melodic minor "changing key" downward, ^7 always called the leading tone).

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Questions, key, and feedback

Q1 (MC). A major has a relative minor hiding under its three-sharp signature. Name it.

• A. a minor
• B. f♯ minor ✅
• C. c♯ minor
• D. d minor

Feedback: Drop to ^6 of any major key — three half steps down — and you find the relative minor sharing its signature.

Q2 (MC). The parallel minor of A♭ major is —

• A. f minor
• B. a minor
• C. g♯ minor
• D. a♭ minor ✅

Feedback: Parallel keys keep the tonic letter and change quality — A♭ major dims to a♭ minor, signature and all.

Q3 (MC). Which signature does b minor fly?

• A. two sharps — F♯ C♯ ✅
• B. one sharp — F♯
• C. three sharps — F♯ C♯ G♯
• D. two flats — B♭ E♭

Feedback: b minor borrows its relative major's flag: D major's two sharps, F♯ and C♯.

Q4 (MC). Climbing from G3, the g harmonic minor scale is spelled —

• A. G3 A3 B♭3 C4 D4 E♭4 F4 G4
• B. G3 A3 B♭3 C4 D4 E4 F♯4 G4
• C. G3 A3 B♭3 C4 D4 E♭4 F♯4 G4 ✅
• D. G3 A3 B♭3 C4 D4 E4 F4 G4

Feedback: Harmonic minor is the natural form with a single alteration: ^7 lifted a half step, here F rising to F♯.

Q5 (Matching). Match each minor-scale flavor to what happens beyond the key signature.

Answer bank: no alterations at all — the signature's own seven notes · one lift only: ^7 up a half step, rising or falling · two lifts on the climb: ^6 and ^7 both go up · every lift surrendered — back to the signature's spelling

• Natural minor → no alterations at all — the signature's own seven notes ✅
• Harmonic minor → one lift only: ^7 up a half step, rising or falling ✅
• Melodic minor, ascending → two lifts on the climb: ^6 and ^7 both go up ✅
• Melodic minor, descending → every lift surrendered — back to the signature's spelling ✅

Feedback: All three flavors share one signature; they differ only in how ^6 and ^7 get adjusted on the way through.

Q6 (MC). A g minor ballad keeps writing F♯ as an accidental just before its phrases settle on G. That F♯ is —

• A. proof that the piece has slipped into a new key
• B. an engraving slip the editor missed
• C. ^7 lifted by accidental — a leading tone leaning into the tonic ✅
• D. the subtonic, supplied by the key signature

Feedback: Minor-key music raises ^7 on the page, note by note, to manufacture the half-step pull the signature alone cannot give.

Q7 (True/False). d minor serves F major as both its relative minor and its parallel minor.

• True
• False ✅

Feedback: The two relationships name different keys: F major's relative is d minor, but its parallel is f minor — same tonic, new quality.

Q8 (MC). Scale degree ^4 carries which formal name?

• A. subdominant ✅
• B. dominant
• C. submediant
• D. supertonic

Feedback: The subdominant sits a fifth below the tonic, mirroring how the dominant sits a fifth above.

Q9 (MC). Natural minor's ^7 hangs a whole step under the tonic. Its proper name is —

• A. the leading tone
• B. the submediant
• C. the subdominant
• D. the subtonic ✅

Feedback: Only a half-step ^7 earns the title leading tone; at a whole step's distance the degree is the subtonic.

Q10 (MC). Singing do-based minor, a vocalist ascends the melodic form. Which syllables replace le and te on the way up?

• A. le and te
• B. la and ti ✅
• C. fa and sol
• D. mi and re

Feedback: Melodic minor's raised ^6 and ^7 borrow the major-scale syllables la and ti; the descent restores le and te.

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Answer key (quick reference)

The table below lists each item's correct response.

Q	Answer
1	B
2	D
3	A
4	C
5	Natural minor → no alterations at all — the signature's own seven notes · Harmonic minor → one lift only: ^7 up a half step, rising or falling · Melodic minor, ascending → two lifts on the climb: ^6 and ^7 both go up · Melodic minor, descending → every lift surrendered — back to the signature's spelling
6	C
7	False
8	A
9	D
10	B

Quality gate (machine-checked): exactly one correct option per single-answer item; the multiple-choice key sequence B D A C C A D 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 k3lu05q01–k3lu05q10 in _build/banks/lu-05.json, each tagged with its ledger concept_ids and objective. The same bank holds k3lu05x01–k3lu05x15: fifteen exam-pool items on the same nine Week 5 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

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access_note      = "Closed to AI — this one is just you and the three forms. The proctored midterm works the same way."

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