End of Semester Pop Quiz

Apr 15, 2010

OK, all you Hellmouth readers and lurkers. Put your books and iPods away and get ready for your Marcel Proost end-of-semester pop quiz. No cheating. Do NOT look at your neighbor’s work. Answers in the next posting.

1. What is the name of Marcel’s favorite male dog?
a. Thelonius
b. Abelard
c. Jean-Paul
d. Pierre

2. What is the name of Marcel’s bitch?
a. Simone
b. Brigitte
c. Colette
d. Pierre

3. Marcel spent Christmas Eve listening to:
a. “Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly”
b. “The Elvis Christmas Album”
c. “White Christmas”
d. Schoenberg Wind Quintet

4. Which bumper sticker does Marcel NOT have on his truck?
a. “Ron Paul for President”
b. “I love my country but fear my government”
c. “I’d rather be fishing”
d. “Smash Spectralism”

5. Which pin-up beauties have adorned the walls of Marcel’s trailer?
a. Nastassja Kinski
b. Nuria Schoenberg
c. Tilda Swinton (HINT)
d. Wendy Carlos
e. Mitsuko Uchida

6. Marcel traveled to Washington D.C. in November to:
a. receive presidential Medal of Freedom
b. meet Michelle Bachmann
c. shake Justice Ruth Ginsberg’s hand
d. drop off a shipment

7. The name of Marcel’s biker club is:
a. The Twelve Horsemen of the Apocalypse
b. Apocalypse Cum Figuris
c. A Pox on Your House
d. The Twelve Tone Riders

8. Marcel was released without having to post bail because he had:
a. compromising information about the judge
b. bad dental hygeine
c. the Vinteuil Sonata memorized
d. the only working back hoe in Gualala

9. Marcel’s new gig is:
a. music reviewer for Independent Coast Observer
b. book reviewer for Independent Coast Observer
c. clear-cutting Lot 50
d. webmaster for Helmut Lachenmann

10. Marcel and Herb Schreiner took which items with them on their fishing trip to Baja California?
a. 12 cases of Sierra Nevada
b. map of California hot springs and nude beaches
c. scuba diving gear
d. The Annotated Schenker

11. The most often used word in Marcel’s music reviews:
a. integrity
b. uncompromising
c. probing
d. dense
e. forbidding
f. dissonant
g. structural
h. bracing
i. wuss

12. Which books are on Marcel’s Kindle? (click for hint)
a. Infinite Jest
b. Ravelstein
c. Communist Manifesto
d. Culture Warrior
e. The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays

13. What does Marcel keep on his kitchen table?
a. salt
b. pepper
c. Tabasco sauce
d. can of Raid

14. Marcel is Facebook friends with
a. Harrison Birtwistle
b. Leon Botstein
c. Robert Craft
d. Sarah Palin

Comments (9)

TL
April 15, 2010

Peace of cake:

1) c,
2) a,
3) d,
4) d,
5) b,
6) c,
7) a,
8) b,
9) a,
10) d,
11) it's difficult to say without knowing the question.. =D
12) i,
13) b,
14) d,
15) d.

AS
April 15, 2010

I may be dead wrong, but all in good fun:
1. a 2. d 3. d 4. d 5. a 6. b 7. a 8. a 9. a 10. b 11. i 12. c 13. d 14. a

Lane Savant
April 15, 2010

I have absolutely no idea

RSC
April 15, 2010

1.C 2.A 3.D 4.C 5.B 6.B 7.A 8.A 9.A 10.D 11.C 12.D 13.C 14.D

AndyG
April 16, 2010

First prize - dinner with Richard Taruskin.

Second prize - two dinners with Richard Taruskin......

RyanM
April 16, 2010

"The Annotated Schenker" reminds me of Stephen Hartke going to the CD player and drolly referring the sounds that were emitted by the speakers as he fast-forwarded an "audible Schenker diagram". Maybe that's an old joke, but that was early this semester and we still laugh at the thought of it!

RyanM
April 16, 2010

oops, that didn't come out right.

... drolly referring to the sounds emitted by the speakers as he fast-forwarded as an "audible Schenker diagram".

Hugo
April 16, 2010

let's try:

1-c, 2-a,3-d,4-d,5-b,6-b,7-d,8-a,9-a,10-b,11-b,12-a,13-d,14-d

Dustin
April 21, 2010

C, C, D, C, B, C, A, A, A, B, I, A, C, A

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