Question ID - 84889 | SaraNextGen Top Answer

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

                                                                      PASSAGE

Jazz had its beginnings in song. Its roots lie deep in the tradition of Negro folk singing that one flourished throughout the rural Southland of the United States before the Civil War. The Negro, in those days, owned only a few crude musical instruments which he made for himself from boxes, barrels and brooms. His voice was his principal means of musical expression. Songs of work and p lay trouble and hope, rose on rich and rhythmic voices everywhere in the South – from peddlers crying their wares to the countryside, from work gangs on the rail roads, from families gathered at the day’s end to sing away their weariness in their unpainted cottages overlooking the cotton fields, from the wayside churches singing with the sounds of Sabbath praise.      These were the voices which the early Negro musicians imitated and transferred to their horns when they taught themselves to play the discarded band instruments that come into hands at the close of the Civil War in the eighteen sixties. As played by their proud Negro owners, the instruments became extensions of the human voice – “singing horns” which opened the way to Jazz. For the reason there has always been a strong, singing quality to Jazz.

Which of the following statements is true in the context of the passage? The early Jazz musicians
(a)	Were familiar with the instruments they were learning to play.	(b)	We’re not familiar with the instruments they were learning to play.
(c)	Knew about the rules of music.	(d)	Were taught to play the instruments.
What opened the way to Jazz?
(a)	The discarded musical instruments.	(b)	The crude band instruments.
(c)	The musical instruments made from boxes.	(d)	“Singing horns”.
Which of the following statements is false in the context of the passage?
(a)	The early Jazz musicians extended the range of their horns.	(b)	The band instruments became extensions of the human voice.

(c)	Jazz has always had a strong, singing quality.	(d)	The Negro’s voice was not his principal means of the musical expression.
The phrase sing away in the passage means
(a)	sing songs at the end of a tiring day.	(b)	sing songs to forget.
(c)	sing songs to make the worry disappear.	(d)	sing songs to draw attention.
Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage?
(a)	The tradition of Negro folk singing	(b)	The ‘singing horns’
(c)	The early origin of Jazz	(d)	The history of Jazz