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What is NOT a reason to study the humanities according to "Digger" Phelps?

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The arts enhance our financial status.

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Which option below would most excite the persona in Whitman's poem, "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer?"

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Receiving a powerful telescope for Christmas.

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Which definition of humanities is not true?

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Professional training in technology

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What is the source of fear in Faulkner's Nobel Prize Award speech?

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The threat of atomic holocaust, being blown up

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According to Socrates himself, which metaphor best describes his "method?"

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A woman being assisted in childbirth

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According to Robert Shaw, "Art is the open hand of a man reaching for his mother."

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False

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Carpe diem is a two-edged sword, because it means both "seize the day" and "relinquish the night." (Dead Poet's Society)

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False

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Socrates best personifies the Sophic tradition.

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True

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Van Gogh's painting transformed Darwin's life forever.

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False

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Our word "humanities" is related to the Latin humanitas, which means human nature, culture, kindness, or compassion.

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True

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In Hesse's story, "Within and Without," Frederick and Erwin represent the two sides, of man, the mantic and the sophic, RESPECTIVELY.

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False

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Whitman's poem teaches us that true learning should be experiential (hands-on).

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True

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To be an Athenian, according to Postman's "Graduation Speech," is to focus on one's own affairs, to aspire to popularity.

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False

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The text defines the essence of creativity

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As giving form to that which is formless

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What was Ed Hart's point in his essay, "The Need Beyond Reason?"

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Humans have a basic need to create.

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Howard Gardner believes that creativity is not a general (global) skill, but specific to an "intelligence."

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True

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Which of these choices is the best example of a "Big C" creative activity?

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Painting the Mona Lisa

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Teresa Amabile likens creativity to making a

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Stew

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The essay at the end of Chapter 4 ("Commentary on the Arts") claims that creativity wanes with age.

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False

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In what stage of the process does the "Ah-ha" occur?

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4

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What is not one of the five stages of the Creative Process?

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Second Thoughts

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Archimedes' bathtub discovery of specific gravity gave rise to which stage?

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"Ah-ha"

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According to our text, "aesthetic" refers to:

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The senses

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What is NOT an important aspect of the aesthetic experience?

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It fosters a hypercritical attitude of detachment.

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Farber's metaphor for the aesthetic experience is:

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framing

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What is NOT one of the questions critics ask about a work of art?

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How much does it cost?

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According to Peter Elbow, "The most effective way...to improve your writing is to do _____exercises."

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freewriting

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"The most controversial modern work exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show in NYC"?

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Duchamp's "Nude Descending Staircase"

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Americans in general find it more difficult than Europeans to enjoy the fine arts.

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True

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According to the text, what is a more legitimate reaction to an artwork?

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"I like what I know"

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The closest English equivalent (translation) of the Greek kritikos, would probably be,

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Judge

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Which of the following is NOT one of the three domains of criticism?

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Conclusion

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notion of "willing suspension of disbelief" is connected to which concept?

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aesthetic stance

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What is the conclusion reached in the film Why Man Creates? In other words, why does man create?

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so something of us lives on after we die

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What is NOT one of Goethe's three fundamental questions to ask about any work of art?

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What technique does the artist use?

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Which one of the following is not one of the 3 classical literary genres?

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generic

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According to the text, why did Dylan Thomas start writing poetry?

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He fell in love with nursery rhymes.

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What is not true about a Shakespearean sonnet?

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It's divided into an octave and sestet.

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Identify the meter of the following lines of poetry: "Tiger! Tiger! burning bright, In the forests of the night."

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trochaic

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When we refer to spring as a season of rebirth and beginning love we're using:

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Connotation (Association)

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"You're eyes are emeralds" is an example of:

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Metaphor

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Of the "Four Senses of Interpretation," which one refers to the spiritual?

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Anagogical

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A three-line imagistic poem is called:

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a Haiku

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Which is not one of the poetic "feet?"

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torcle

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Another word for "overstatement" is

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hyperbole

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"The snake slithers and hisses" is an example of

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onomatopoeia

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Which statement about dance is not found in the text?

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Dance springs from an unnatural instinct.

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What is not one of the 3 dance genres mentioned in the text?

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Adversarial (war)

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Which statement below is untrue about dance?

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Ballet begins in the French courts of the Renaissance.

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Which name below is not connected to dance in some way?

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Vincenzo Galilei

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Which dance coordinate relates especially to modern dance?

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psychological

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Which modern dance pioneer combined ballet discipline with free expression?

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Tharp

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Famous impresario who assembled Les Ballets Russes.

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Sergei Diaghilev

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Defected from Russia during the cold war.

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Rudolf Nureyev

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Viewed the "solar plexus" as the center of all movement.

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Isadora Duncan

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Said: "Freedom to a dancer means only one thing - discipline."

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Martha Graham

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The sources of her inspiration are ballet, pop music, natural gestures, even sports.

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Twyla Tharp

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Her masterpiece was Appalachian Spring.

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Martha Graham

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The "mother" of modern American dance (hated ballet).

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Isadora Duncan

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Diana Deutsch, who began this audio lecture, is

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Professor of Music Psychology at the University of California, San Diego.

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Professor Deutsch's studies of music students at the Eastman School of Music show that

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Students raised speaking Mandarin Chinese are more likely to have perfect pitch.

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Which of the following meanings is not associated with the tone "Mah," in Mandarin?

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Water

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Professor Deutsch discovered that, a Mandarin Chinese speaker can duplicate sounds exactly even when uttered

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A week apart

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In another related study it was discovered that every culture seems to share certain common sounds when parents communicate with infants. Which category does NOT apply?

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I love you

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In analyzing the physics of sound, it was concluded that sound is like touch at a distance.

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True

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It takes the brain about how long to decide whether to accept or reject a "new" sound?

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One millisecond

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In the incident described when the Paris audience rioted, which piece of music was being played?

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Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"

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The reason for the riot was most likely

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The music was just too new and different for the audience to take in; their brains revolted.

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On the occasion of the second performance of this music the audience

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Was wildly enthusiastic in favor of it

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Surprisingly, the same music later became popular and has even been used as

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A segment for a popular Disney movie.

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In this example, which statement is most valid?

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I like what I know

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The protagonist's "solo" of what he's thinking & feeling.

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soliloquy

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The "purgation" of pity and fear in tragedy (a la Aristotle)..

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catharsis

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Where does the dramatic question emerge in a play?

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inciting moment

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What term describes the "unraveling" of the plot?

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denouement

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What term doesn't relate to the origins of Greek drama?

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Slapstick

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Of the three literary genres, which is the most recent in history?

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Drama

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According to the text, where did drama originate?

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In Dionysian religious ritual.

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What was not one of the dramatic conventions of ancient Greek drama?

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The "chorus" sang interludes between acts.

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How were Greek and Elizabethan tragedies similar?

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in both, good rulers were afflicted with a tragic flaw.

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With which famous Greek play in mind, did Freud construct an entire psychosis centered on a man's lust for his mother and resentment toward his father?

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Oedipus the King

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Why did Jocasta believe oracles were not to be trusted or relied upon.

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b. Oracles had proved untrue concerning her child.

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"Recitative" is

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A special delivery halfway between speaking and singing.

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The first full-length opera was

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onteverdi's Orfeo

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Which term does not relate to Wagner's operas?

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Opera verismo

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Which aria describes the heroine's anticipation of her husband's return.

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"Un bel di" from Madama Butterfly

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What is not true about the meaning of Gesamtkunstwerk?

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It is almost always associated with opera verismo.

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Wagner's use of leitmotif involved associating music with

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All (ideas, objects, feelings, and people)

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The earliest type of opera (Monteverdi's`) was called

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Opera Seria

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Camelot is a good example of a

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A fairytale musical

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What is not true about opera?

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Opera began about 200 years ago in Italy.

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What is not one of the basic requirements of American musicals?

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No spoken dialogue.

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What is not a major difference between musicals and operas?

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Musicals are comic; operas are tragic.

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Musical theater poses a greater challenge to our "suspension of disbelief" than plays or films.

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True

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1 / 1 pts West Side Story represents which type of musical?

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folk musical

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Which composer of musicals had three musicals playing on Broadway at the same time in 1989?

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Which of the following meanings is not associated with the tone "Mah," in Mandarin?

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Water

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Professor Deutsch discovered that, a Mandarin Chinese speaker can duplicate sounds exactly even when uttered

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A week apart

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