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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #2
A The New Testament
B The Old Testament
C Both the Old and New Testaments
D The Torah
Question #3
A It utilized scenery, acting, and costumes, just as in opera.
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’s secular
Question #4
A Harmony
B Ostinato
C Walking line
D Chord changes
Question #5
A Castrati
B Altos
C Ball-less
D Sopranatos
Question #6
A Both opera seria and opera buffa
B Verismo
C Opera buffa
D Opera seria
Question #7
A Dafne
B Giulio Cesare
C La Boheme
D Dido and Aeneus
Question #8
A Jacopo Peri
B Georg Frederic Handel
C Henry Purcell
D Giacomo Puccini
Question #9
A Venice
B Verona
C Florence
D Milan
Question #11
A Principals
B Protagonists
C Antagonists
D Comprimarios
Question #12
A Chorus
B Comprimario
C Principal
D Supernumerary
Question #15
A The Industrial Revolution
B The Punic Wars
C The Reformation
D The Counter-Reformation
Question #16
A ritornello
B lament aria
C masque
D da capo aria
Question #17
A Polyphonic
B Monophonic
C All three textures
D Homophonic
Question #18
A Catholic
B Jehovah’s Witness
C Jewish
D Lutheran
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 Iliad.
B the Aeneid.
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 LAMC Opera
B Los Angeles Opera
C Santa Clarita Opera
D Mission Opera
Question #30
A an orchestra interlude
B rapid speechlike declamation
C homorhythmic choral singing
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 Handel
B Monteverdi
C Machiavelli
D Peri
Question #34
A Vaudeville
B All of these
C the Broadway musical
D Operetta
Question #35
A chant
B cantatas
C choruses
Question #36
A singing
B opera
C the mass
D Lieder
