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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #2
A The Torah
B The Old Testament
C The New Testament
D Both the Old and New Testaments
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 Walking line
C Harmony
D Ostinato
Question #5
A Ball-less
B Castrati
C Sopranatos
D Altos
Question #6
A Both opera seria and opera buffa
B Opera seria
C Opera buffa
D Verismo
Question #7
A Dido and Aeneus
B La Boheme
C Giulio Cesare
D Dafne
Question #8
A Henry Purcell
B Jacopo Peri
C Giacomo Puccini
D Georg Frederic Handel
Question #9
A Florence
B Verona
C Milan
D Venice
Question #11
A Antagonists
B Protagonists
C Principals
D Comprimarios
Question #12
A Principal
B Chorus
C Comprimario
D Supernumerary
Question #15
A The Counter-Reformation
B The Punic Wars
C The Industrial Revolution
D The Reformation
Question #16
A masque
B lament aria
C ritornello
D da capo aria
Question #17
A All three textures
B Monophonic
C Polyphonic
D Homophonic
Question #18
A Lutheran
B Jehovah’s Witness
C Catholic
D Jewish
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 disjunct solo line
B with a descending, chromatic bass line
C with a frenetic rhythmic pulse
Question #24
A to die
B to marry Aeneas
C to leave her country
Question #26
A aria
B recitative
Question #27
A the Aeneid.
B the Iliad.
C the Odyssey.
Question #28
A He was a photography professor
B He was a court composer.
C He was a church organist.
D He was a music teacher in a girls’ school.
Question #29
A Santa Clarita Opera
B Los Angeles Opera
C LAMC Opera
D Mission Opera
Question #30
A rapid speechlike declamation
B homorhythmic choral singing
C an orchestra interlude
D tuneful and highly emotive melodies
Question #31
A The pit orchestra plays it
B It may introduce themes from arias to follow.
C It’s played between scenes.
D It is an instrumental introduction to an opera.
Question #33
A Peri
B Handel
C Monteverdi
D Machiavelli
Question #34
A All of these
B the Broadway musical
C Vaudeville
D Operetta
Question #35
A choruses
B chant
C cantatas
Question #36
A opera
B singing
C Lieder
D the mass
