MCQ Questions
Q.1.
Which of the following is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini?
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    Marriage of Figaro
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    La Traviata
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    Madame Butterfly
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    Samson and Delilah
Q.2.
Which form of musical articulation can you NOT play on a piano?
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    Staccato
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    Legato
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    Pizzicato
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    Sforzando
Q.3.
What is Mozart’s full name?
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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    Ludwig van Mozart
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    Johann Sebastian Mozart
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    John Mozart
Q.4.
What is Symphony No. 9 in E minor by Antonín Dvořák more commonly known as?
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    New World Symphony
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    Pastoral Symphony
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    Fantasia Sinfonica
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    Rhenish Symphony
Q.5.
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 in which German city?
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    Berlin
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    Dresden
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    Nuremberg
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    Bonn
Q.6.
Richard Wagner’s ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ (Ritt der Walküren) is played at the beginning of Act III of which of the operas in the Der Ring des Nibelungen?
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    Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold)
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    Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
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    Siegfried
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    Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)
Q.7.
Who composed the famous ‘Four Seasons’?
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    George Frideric Handel
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    Giuseppe Verdi
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    Johann Sebastian Bach
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    Antonio Vivaldi
Q.8.
The composers Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Strauss were all born in which country?
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    Austria
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    Germany
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    Switzerland
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    Russia
Q.9.
Which Russian composer wrote the score for ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet?
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    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
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    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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    Anton Rubinstein
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    Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Q.10.
Frederic Chopin was born in which country?
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    France
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    Germany
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    Poland
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    Italy
Q.11.
Who composed the ‘Brandenburg Concertos’ in around 1721?
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    George Frideric Handel
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    Johann Sebastian Bach
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    Ludwig van Beethoven
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    Franz Schubert
Q.12.
Which famous Italian family produced unequaled stringed instruments, the sound of which cannot be reproduced today?
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    Verdi
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    Paganini
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    Stradivari
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    Rhonheimer
Q.13.
What is the name for the lowest singing voice in opera?
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    Soprano
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    Mezzo
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    Bass
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    Contralto
Q.14.
‘La Traviata’ is an opera in which language?
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    Italian
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    French
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    German
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    Russian
Q.15.
If a musical note is preceded by a sharp (#), how is the note modified?
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    The pitch is lowered by a semitone
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    The note is played an octave lower
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    The pitch is raised by a semitone
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    The note is played an octave higher