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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #2
A The Old Testament
B Both the Old and New Testaments
C The New Testament
D The Torah
Question #3
A It was generally based on a biblical story and performed in a church.
B It’s secular
C It featured arias, recitatives, ensemble numbers, choruses, and narration.
D It utilized scenery, acting, and costumes, just as in opera.
Question #4
A Chord changes
B Harmony
C Ostinato
D Walking line
Question #5
A Sopranatos
B Ball-less
C Altos
D Castrati
Question #6
A Opera buffa
B Verismo
C Opera seria
D Both opera seria and opera buffa
Question #7
A Giulio Cesare
B Dido and Aeneus
C La Boheme
D Dafne
Question #8
A Giacomo Puccini
B Jacopo Peri
C Henry Purcell
D Georg Frederic Handel
Question #9
A Venice
B Milan
C Florence
D Verona
Question #11
A Protagonists
B Principals
C Comprimarios
D Antagonists
Question #12
A Chorus
B Principal
C Supernumerary
D Comprimario
Question #15
A The Punic Wars
B The Industrial Revolution
C The Reformation
D The Counter-Reformation
Question #16
A masque
B ritornello
C lament aria
D da capo aria
Question #17
A Homophonic
B Polyphonic
C All three textures
D Monophonic
Question #18
A Jehovah’s Witness
B Lutheran
C Jewish
D Catholic
Question #21
A the Royal Opera of England??
B a group of girls at a boarding school
C no one, since stage plays were outlawed
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 aria
B recitative
Question #27
A the Iliad.
B the Aeneid.
C the Odyssey.
Question #28
A He was a music teacher in a girls’ school.
B He was a church organist.
C He was a photography professor
D He was a court composer.
Question #29
A Santa Clarita Opera
B Los Angeles Opera
C LAMC Opera
D Mission Opera
Question #30
A rapid speechlike declamation
B tuneful and highly emotive melodies
C homorhythmic choral singing
D an orchestra interlude
Question #31
A It’s played between scenes.
B The pit orchestra plays it
C It may introduce themes from arias to follow.
D It is an instrumental introduction to an opera.
Question #33
A Peri
B Machiavelli
C Handel
D Monteverdi
Question #34
A Vaudeville
B the Broadway musical
C All of these
D Operetta
Question #35
A chant
B choruses
C cantatas
Question #36
A Lieder
B opera
C the mass
D singing
