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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #2
A Both the Old and New Testaments
B The New Testament
C The Torah
D The Old Testament
Question #3
A It was generally based on a biblical story and performed in a church.
B It utilized scenery, acting, and costumes, just as in opera.
C It’s secular
D It featured arias, recitatives, ensemble numbers, choruses, and narration.
Question #4
A Ostinato
B Chord changes
C Walking line
D Harmony
Question #5
A Castrati
B Altos
C Sopranatos
D Ball-less
Question #6
A Both opera seria and opera buffa
B Opera buffa
C Opera seria
D Verismo
Question #7
A La Boheme
B Dido and Aeneus
C Dafne
D Giulio Cesare
Question #8
A Henry Purcell
B Georg Frederic Handel
C Jacopo Peri
D Giacomo Puccini
Question #9
A Milan
B Verona
C Venice
D Florence
Question #11
A Principals
B Comprimarios
C Protagonists
D Antagonists
Question #12
A Principal
B Supernumerary
C Chorus
D Comprimario
Question #15
A The Counter-Reformation
B The Industrial Revolution
C The Punic Wars
D The Reformation
Question #16
A lament aria
B ritornello
C da capo aria
D masque
Question #17
A Monophonic
B Polyphonic
C Homophonic
D All three textures
Question #18
A Catholic
B Jewish
C Jehovah’s Witness
D Lutheran
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 marry Aeneas
B to die
C to leave her country
Question #26
A aria
B recitative
Question #27
A the Odyssey.
B the Aeneid.
C the Iliad.
Question #28
A He was a court composer.
B He was a photography professor
C He was a church organist.
D He was a music teacher in a girls’ school.
Question #29
A Mission Opera
B Santa Clarita Opera
C Los Angeles Opera
D LAMC Opera
Question #30
A homorhythmic choral singing
B tuneful and highly emotive melodies
C an orchestra interlude
D rapid speechlike declamation
Question #31
A It is an instrumental introduction to an opera.
B The pit orchestra plays it
C It may introduce themes from arias to follow.
D It’s played between scenes.
Question #33
A Peri
B Monteverdi
C Machiavelli
D Handel
Question #34
A Operetta
B All of these
C the Broadway musical
D Vaudeville
Question #35
A chant
B choruses
C cantatas
Question #36
A opera
B singing
C Lieder
D the mass
