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1
As a Soviet composer, Shostakovich was required to
A)follow the dictates of the Communist Party
B)write music that was accessible and melodic
C)reject modernism
D)all of the above
2
Shostakovich is best known as a composer of
A)symphonic works
B)an enormous quantity of music in almost every genre
C)songs and piano works
D)chamber music
3
Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
A)is one of the composer's least known works
B)portrays violence and sexually explicit material in musical form
C)is accessible in style and allowed the composer to regain official favor with the Communist party
D)is disonant and "modernistic"
4
Shostakovich's opera Lady MacBeth of the Mtsensk District
A)established the composer as a major figure in twentieth-century music
B)caused the composer to be expelled from the Soviet Union
C)met with unanimous approval from Stalin and the Communist Party
D)followed the Communist Party's dictates of an accessible musical style
5
Babi Yar, a poem by the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko about Jews massacred by the Nazis in Kiev,
A)was used by Shostakovich as a text of the opening movement of his Thirteenth Symphony
B)was applauded and embraced by the communist authorities
C)was spurned by Shostakovich as a text for his Thirteenth Symphony because it would be rejected by the Communist authorities
D)was used for the Communist Party's official anthem
6
Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony has been described as
A)"a blatant example of all that is wrong with twentieth-century music"
B)"a sinister combination of evil intent and discordant harmonies"
C)"a ridiculous parody of eighteenth-century form"
D)"a Soviety artist's practical creative response to just criticism"





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