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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 New Testament
D The Old Testament
Question #3
A It’s secular
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 utilized scenery, acting, and costumes, just as in opera.
Question #4
A Harmony
B Ostinato
C Chord changes
D Walking line
Question #5
A Altos
B Ball-less
C Castrati
D Sopranatos
Question #6
A Opera seria
B Both opera seria and opera buffa
C Verismo
D Opera buffa
Question #7
A Dafne
B Giulio Cesare
C La Boheme
D Dido and Aeneus
Question #8
A Giacomo Puccini
B Henry Purcell
C Jacopo Peri
D Georg Frederic Handel
Question #9
A Verona
B Florence
C Venice
D Milan
Question #11
A Protagonists
B Principals
C Comprimarios
D Antagonists
Question #12
A Chorus
B Supernumerary
C Principal
D Comprimario
Question #15
A The Punic Wars
B The Counter-Reformation
C The Industrial Revolution
D The Reformation
Question #16
A da capo aria
B ritornello
C masque
D lament aria
Question #17
A Homophonic
B All three textures
C Polyphonic
D Monophonic
Question #18
A Catholic
B Jehovah’s Witness
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 descending, chromatic bass line
B with a disjunct solo line
C with a frenetic rhythmic pulse
Question #24
A to die
B to leave her country
C to marry Aeneas
Question #26
A recitative
B aria
Question #27
A the Aeneid.
B the Odyssey.
C the Iliad.
Question #28
A He was a court composer.
B He was a photography professor
C He was a music teacher in a girls’ school.
D He was a church organist.
Question #29
A Mission Opera
B Los Angeles Opera
C LAMC Opera
D Santa Clarita Opera
Question #30
A an orchestra interlude
B tuneful and highly emotive melodies
C rapid speechlike declamation
D homorhythmic choral singing
Question #31
A It’s played between scenes.
B It is an instrumental introduction to an opera.
C It may introduce themes from arias to follow.
D The pit orchestra plays it
Question #33
A Handel
B Machiavelli
C Monteverdi
D Peri
Question #34
A Operetta
B Vaudeville
C the Broadway musical
D All of these
Question #35
A cantatas
B chant
C choruses
Question #36
A the mass
B Lieder
C singing
D opera
