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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 utilized scenery, acting, and costumes, just as in opera.
C It featured arias, recitatives, ensemble numbers, choruses, and narration.
D It was generally based on a biblical story and performed in a church.
Question #4
A Walking line
B Harmony
C Chord changes
D Ostinato
Question #5
A Sopranatos
B Altos
C Ball-less
D Castrati
Question #6
A Opera seria
B Both opera seria and opera buffa
C Opera buffa
D Verismo
Question #7
A Giulio Cesare
B La Boheme
C Dido and Aeneus
D Dafne
Question #8
A Giacomo Puccini
B Georg Frederic Handel
C Henry Purcell
D Jacopo Peri
Question #9
A Verona
B Florence
C Venice
D Milan
Question #11
A Protagonists
B Principals
C Comprimarios
D Antagonists
Question #12
A Principal
B Comprimario
C Supernumerary
D Chorus
Question #15
A The Punic Wars
B The Industrial Revolution
C The Counter-Reformation
D The Reformation
Question #16
A ritornello
B lament aria
C masque
D da capo aria
Question #17
A Monophonic
B Homophonic
C Polyphonic
D All three textures
Question #18
A Lutheran
B Jehovah’s Witness
C Jewish
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 frenetic rhythmic pulse
C with a disjunct solo 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 Odyssey.
B the Iliad.
C the Aeneid.
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 Mission Opera
B Los Angeles Opera
C LAMC Opera
D Santa Clarita Opera
Question #30
A an orchestra interlude
B homorhythmic choral singing
C rapid speechlike declamation
D tuneful and highly emotive melodies
Question #31
A The pit orchestra plays it
B It is an instrumental introduction to an opera.
C It’s played between scenes.
D It may introduce themes from arias to follow.
Question #33
A Monteverdi
B Machiavelli
C Handel
D Peri
Question #34
A All of these
B Vaudeville
C Operetta
D the Broadway musical
Question #35
A chant
B choruses
C cantatas
Question #36
A the mass
B opera
C singing
D Lieder
