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