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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 Walking line
B Ostinato
C Harmony
D Chord changes
Question #5
A Altos
B Ball-less
C Sopranatos
D Castrati
Question #6
A Verismo
B Opera buffa
C Opera seria
D Both opera seria and opera buffa
Question #7
A Dafne
B La Boheme
C Dido and Aeneus
D Giulio Cesare
Question #8
A Giacomo Puccini
B Georg Frederic Handel
C Jacopo Peri
D Henry Purcell
Question #9
A Verona
B Florence
C Venice
D Milan
Question #11
A Protagonists
B Comprimarios
C Antagonists
D Principals
Question #12
A Supernumerary
B Principal
C Comprimario
D Chorus
Question #15
A The Punic Wars
B The Reformation
C The Industrial Revolution
D The Counter-Reformation
Question #16
A masque
B ritornello
C da capo aria
D lament aria
Question #17
A Polyphonic
B All three textures
C Monophonic
D Homophonic
Question #18
A Lutheran
B Jehovah’s Witness
C Jewish
D Catholic
Question #21
A the Royal Opera of England??
B no one, since stage plays were outlawed
C a group of girls at a boarding school
Question #23
A with a disjunct solo line
B with a frenetic rhythmic pulse
C with a descending, chromatic bass 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 court composer.
B He was a church organist.
C He was a music teacher in a girls’ school.
D He was a photography professor
Question #29
A Mission Opera
B Los Angeles Opera
C LAMC Opera
D Santa Clarita Opera
Question #30
A rapid speechlike declamation
B homorhythmic choral singing
C tuneful and highly emotive melodies
D an orchestra interlude
Question #31
A It’s played between scenes.
B It is an instrumental introduction to an opera.
C The pit orchestra plays it
D It may introduce themes from arias to follow.
Question #33
A Monteverdi
B Handel
C Machiavelli
D Peri
Question #34
A All of these
B Operetta
C Vaudeville
D the Broadway musical
Question #35
A cantatas
B chant
C choruses
Question #36
A the mass
B singing
C Lieder
D opera
