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