Week 11 — Quiz (auto-graded) · Roman Numerals and Function

Course: MUS 156 Music Theory I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 11 of 16 (Week 11) · two sessions per week
Objectives tested: SLO 5 (analyze diatonic harmony with Roman numerals and figured bass) · SLO 4 (spell and identify triads and sevenths in key context)
Points: 10 (10 × 1) · Group: Quizzes (lowest 2 of 14 dropped) · Due: the end of Week 11 · 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-11.json, which also holds this unit's 15 exam-pool items (idents k3lu11x01–x15) — those test the same concepts with different stems, feed the final, 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	Case and symbols encode quality	SLO 5
2	Multiple choice	Roman numeral of a spelled chord (major key)	SLO 5
3	Multiple choice	Predominant family	SLO 5
4	Multiple choice	The functional cycle	SLO 5
5	Matching	Numerals → function families	SLO 5
6	Multiple choice	V in minor — the raised ^7	SLO 5
7	True / False	vii°7's diatonic home	SLO 4
8	Multiple choice	Figures in analysis — V6/5's bass	SLO 5
9	Multiple choice	The dominant pair's shared tritone	SLO 4
10	Multiple choice	Harmonic rhythm ≠ tempo	SLO 5

No trick questions; every distractor targets a misconception named in the Week 11 outline (case-as-decoration, function-as-bar-position, minor-v-always-minor, viio7-in-major, figures-as-different-chords, harmonic-rhythm-as-tempo).

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Questions, key, and feedback

Q1 (MC). An analysis prints iv in lowercase instead of IV. The case is telling you to expect —

• A. a quieter dynamic for that chord
• B. a minor-quality chord ✅
• C. a chord falling on a weak beat
• D. a chord the player may leave out

Feedback: Case encodes quality: capitals for major, lowercase for minor, with the ° and + marks for the outliers.

Q2 (MC). F major harmonizes D–F–A. Which numeral does the analysis show?

• A. vi ✅
• B. iv
• C. VI
• D. IV

Feedback: D stands six steps up from F, and D–F–A is minor — so lowercase vi, where capital VI would promise major.

Q3 (MC). Two numerals in every major key do the dominant-preparing work. They are —

• A. I and vi
• B. V and vii°
• C. iii and V
• D. ii and IV ✅

Feedback: The set-up crew is ii with IV: both aim the music at V.

Q4 (MC). Functional harmony's basic loop runs in one order. Which?

• A. tonic, then predominant, then dominant, then home again ✅
• B. tonic, then dominant, then predominant, then home again
• C. dominant first, predominant second, tonic to finish
• D. predominant, tonic, dominant, over and over

Feedback: Rest, motion toward tension, tension, release: T-PD-D-T is the loop beneath countless songs.

Q5 (Matching). Assign each major-key numeral to its working family.

Answer bank: tonic · predominant · dominant

• iii → tonic ✅
• IV → predominant ✅
• vii° → dominant ✅
• vi → tonic ✅
• ii → predominant ✅

Feedback: I, iii, and vi rest; ii and IV prepare; V and vii° demand — three families cover all seven chords.

Q6 (MC). In E minor, once ^7 rises to sharpen the pull home, the chord on the fifth degree becomes —

• A. B minor, marked v
• B. B major, marked V ✅
• C. B diminished, marked v°
• D. D major, marked VII

Feedback: Lifting D to D♯ hands the five chord a major third — V, the version that truly leads.

Q7 (True/False). No major key contains vii°7 among its seven diatonic seventh chords; the fully diminished seventh belongs to harmonic minor.

• True ✅
• False

Feedback: Major's ^7 seventh chord stops at half-diminished; only harmonic minor's raised ^7 stacks the full °7.

Q8 (MC). An A major analysis calls V6/5. Which pitch does the bass take?

• A. E
• B. G♯ ✅
• C. B
• D. D

Feedback: V6/5 puts the chord's third low — in A major that third is G♯, the leading tone itself.

Q9 (MC). G major's V7 (D–F♯–A–C) and vii° (F♯–A–C) overlap in three notes. Which interval inside both supplies their forward push?

• A. the perfect fifth D–A
• B. the minor third A–C
• C. the tritone F♯–C ✅
• D. no interval at all — they share none

Feedback: F♯ against C is the key's tritone — ti straining under fa — and both dominant chords carry it.

Q10 (MC). The term "harmonic rhythm" refers to —

• A. the metronome marking of the song
• B. the pace at which the harmony moves to new chords ✅
• C. the groove the rhythm section locks into
• D. the tally of beats inside each bar

Feedback: Not how fast the beat goes — how fast the CHORDS go: once a bar, once a beat, once a phrase.

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Answer key (quick reference)

The table below lists each item's correct response.

Q	Answer
1	B
2	A
3	D
4	A
5	iii → tonic · IV → predominant · vii° → dominant · vi → tonic · ii → predominant
6	B
7	True
8	B
9	C
10	B

Quality gate (machine-checked): exactly one correct option per single-answer item; the multiple-choice key sequence B A D A B B 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 k3lu11q01–k3lu11q10 in _build/banks/lu-11.json, each tagged with its ledger concept_ids and objective. The same bank holds k3lu11x01–k3lu11x15: fifteen exam-pool items on the same twelve Week 11 concepts with fully different stems (zero text overlap — the leakage gate checks). The final 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 numbers. The proctored final works the same way."

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