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