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Question 1

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What Italian class promoted ballet the most?
Answer
  • Dukes
  • Peasants
  • Urban petite bourgeoisie
  • Rural petite bourgeoisie

Question 2

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Who was Marius Petipa?
Answer
  • A famous ballet dancer, known for opening a ballet school in New York
  • A famous ballet dancer, known for joining the Russian Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg and making St. Petersburg the capital of ballet around the world
  • A famous choreographer, known for bringing ballet to Italy in the early 1400s
  • A famous choreographer, known for making Paris the ballet centre of the world during the early classical period

Question 3

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What country influenced American ballet the most?
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  • France
  • Italy
  • Russia
  • Spain

Question 4

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What is Mikhail Mordkin known for?
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  • Starting the first American ballet school
  • Staring in the first production of Swan Lake in Russia
  • Making St. Petersburg the world's hub for ballet
  • Starting the first Russian ballet school

Question 5

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What do choregraphers NOT do in terms of production?
Answer
  • Choose the costumes
  • Choose the music
  • Choose the dancers based on auditions
  • Choreographers do not do any of these things
  • Choose dancers based on a voting system

Question 6

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What ballet has characters such as Herr Drosselmeyer, pages, and Mother Ginger?
Answer
  • Swan Lake
  • The Nutcracker
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Cinderella

Question 7

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In the section Physics and Dance: A brief exploration how is dance and physics linked?
Answer
  • Dance and physics are linked through music and motion
  • Dance and physics are linked through biological structures
  • Dance and physics are linked through posture and math
  • Dance and physics are linked through human mechanics

Question 8

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In the Motion section, it goes over how different actions can be performed with only the lower body
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  • True
  • False
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