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