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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #2
A The New Testament
B Both the Old and New Testaments
C The Old Testament
D The Torah
Question #3
A It’s secular
B It was generally based on a biblical story and performed in a church.
C It featured arias, recitatives, ensemble numbers, choruses, and narration.
D It utilized scenery, acting, and costumes, just as in opera.
Question #4
A Walking line
B Harmony
C Ostinato
D Chord changes
Question #5
A Sopranatos
B Altos
C Ball-less
D Castrati
Question #6
A Both opera seria and opera buffa
B Opera seria
C Verismo
D Opera buffa
Question #7
A Dafne
B Dido and Aeneus
C La Boheme
D Giulio Cesare
Question #8
A Jacopo Peri
B Henry Purcell
C Giacomo Puccini
D Georg Frederic Handel
Question #9
A Milan
B Florence
C Verona
D Venice
Question #11
A Protagonists
B Principals
C Antagonists
D Comprimarios
Question #12
A Comprimario
B Supernumerary
C Principal
D Chorus
Question #15
A The Punic Wars
B The Reformation
C The Counter-Reformation
D The Industrial Revolution
Question #16
A masque
B ritornello
C da capo aria
D lament aria
Question #17
A Homophonic
B Polyphonic
C All three textures
D Monophonic
Question #18
A Lutheran
B Jehovah’s Witness
C Jewish
D Catholic
Question #21
A a group of girls at a boarding school
B no one, since stage plays were outlawed
C the Royal Opera of England??
Question #23
A with a frenetic rhythmic pulse
B with a disjunct solo line
C with a descending, chromatic bass line
Question #24
A to leave her country
B to marry Aeneas
C to die
Question #26
A recitative
B aria
Question #27
A the Aeneid.
B the Iliad.
C the Odyssey.
Question #28
A He was a music teacher in a girls’ school.
B He was a church organist.
C He was a photography professor
D He was a court composer.
Question #29
A Los Angeles Opera
B LAMC Opera
C Mission Opera
D Santa Clarita Opera
Question #30
A rapid speechlike declamation
B tuneful and highly emotive melodies
C homorhythmic choral singing
D an orchestra interlude
Question #31
A It is an instrumental introduction to an opera.
B It may introduce themes from arias to follow.
C It’s played between scenes.
D The pit orchestra plays it
Question #33
A Machiavelli
B Handel
C Monteverdi
D Peri
Question #34
A All of these
B the Broadway musical
C Vaudeville
D Operetta
Question #35
A choruses
B chant
C cantatas
Question #36
A Lieder
B the mass
C opera
D singing
