QUIZ

Practice Quiz for roll taking.  Provide the best answer from those shown.

1.  Our definition of life is:  A) Metabolize, Evolve, Reproduce  B) Think, Develop, Reproduce  C) Reason, Grow, Reproduce  D) Evolve, Induct, Reproduce

2.  Conway well known for:  A) Genetic Algorithms  B) L-Systems  C) Game of Life  D) Tierra

3.  Induction is:  A) Predict examples from rule  B) Create rules from examples  C) Develop examples from analogy  D) Think by reasoning

4.  Karl Simms is most known for his:  A) Screen Savers  B) Cellular Automata  C) Evolved Creatures  D) Virtual Creatures

5.  Person who wanted machines to sprout new machines:  A) Karl Simms  B) John von Neumann  C) Alan Turing  D) John Conway

6.  Computer hardware:  A) Uses binary math  B) Only subtract  C) Only multiply  D) Relies on disc memory

7.  Sonification is:  A) Making sounds from numbers  B) A version of Visualization  C) Reason, Grow, Reproduce  D) Developing sound

8.  Lisp stands for:  A) List Instantiating progress  B) Lisp Processing  C) Speech impediment  D) List Processing

9.  MIDI stands for:  A) Musical Instrument Digital Interface  B) Musical Interface Digital Instrument  C) Musical Instance Digital Influence  D) Musical Instrument Dogmatic Interface

10.  Algorithm means:  A) Rules  B) Recipe  C) Rhythm (different spelling)  D) Reproduction

11. Composer of Cantus  :  A) David Cope  B) Laurie Spiegel  C) Arvo Part  D) Steve Reich

12.  0010 means in binary:  A) 1  B) 2  C) 3  D) 4

13.  Stephen Wolfram created:  A) Mathematica  B) A New Kind of Science  C) WolframAlpha  D) All of the above

14.  Wolfram’s automata have how many dimensions:  A) 3  B) 2  C) 1  D) 4

15.  Boids is an example of:  A) Swarm Intelligence  B) Induction  C) Creativity  D) Deduction

16.  John Holland invented:  A) Artificial creativity  B) Genetic Algorithms  C) Emergence  D) Boids

17.  MGC is a program that:  A) creates MIDI files from numbers  B) produces sound  C) develops new ideas  D) composes

18.  Alena was created by:  A) John Conway  B) Karl Simms  C) your teacher  D) George Gobel

19.  SMHRG refers to:  A) Induction  B) way of analyzing music  C) Creativity  D) Deduction

20.  Consonance tends to be:  A) ugly  B) dissonant  C) pleasing  D) off putting

21.  Melody has:  A) counterpoint  B) 2 notes at the same time  C) 1 note at a time  D) always on the bottom

22.  Major keys tend to be:  A) sad  B) slow  C) happy  D) mean

23.  Meter refers to:  A) # of beats in musical measures  B) # of notes in a rhythm  C) marches  D) waltzes

24.  Scales move by  A) leap  B) step  C) rhythmically  D) loud

25.  Timbre refers to  A) loudness  B) harshness  C) sound color  D) movement

26.  Study now. Don’t wait until the night before the exam!

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