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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 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 Harmony
B Ostinato
C Chord changes
D Walking line
Question #5
A Castrati
B Sopranatos
C Ball-less
D Altos
Question #6
A Opera buffa
B Both opera seria and opera buffa
C Verismo
D Opera seria
Question #7
A La Boheme
B Giulio Cesare
C Dido and Aeneus
D Dafne
Question #8
A Giacomo Puccini
B Georg Frederic Handel
C Henry Purcell
D Jacopo Peri
Question #9
A Venice
B Florence
C Milan
D Verona
Question #11
A Principals
B Protagonists
C Antagonists
D Comprimarios
Question #12
A Principal
B Comprimario
C Chorus
D Supernumerary
Question #15
A The Reformation
B The Industrial Revolution
C The Counter-Reformation
D The Punic Wars
Question #16
A masque
B ritornello
C lament aria
D da capo aria
Question #17
A All three textures
B Monophonic
C Polyphonic
D Homophonic
Question #18
A Jehovah’s Witness
B Catholic
C Jewish
D Lutheran
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 frenetic rhythmic pulse
B with a descending, chromatic bass line
C with a disjunct solo line
Question #24
A to leave her country
B to die
C to marry Aeneas
Question #26
A recitative
B aria
Question #27
A the Iliad.
B the Odyssey.
C the Aeneid.
Question #28
A He was a church organist.
B He was a court composer.
C He was a music teacher in a girls’ school.
D He was a photography professor
Question #29
A Mission Opera
B Santa Clarita Opera
C LAMC Opera
D Los Angeles Opera
Question #30
A homorhythmic choral singing
B rapid speechlike declamation
C tuneful and highly emotive melodies
D an orchestra interlude
Question #31
A It’s played between scenes.
B It may introduce themes from arias to follow.
C It is an instrumental introduction to an opera.
D The pit orchestra plays it
Question #33
A Machiavelli
B Peri
C Monteverdi
D Handel
Question #34
A Operetta
B All of these
C Vaudeville
D the Broadway musical
Question #35
A cantatas
B choruses
C chant
Question #36
A singing
B the mass
C opera
D Lieder
