We know more about indigenous cultures of the U.S. and Canada than we do of Latin America.

Audiences could be quite noisy before the beginning of the opera, due in part to

a. the fact that the music they were about to hear was new and not a cherished and respected masterwork. b. people regarded the opera as a social event. c. they were a lower class and did not know how to act. d. both a and b.

Who wrote The Passions of the Soul in an effort to codify the basic human affections?

a) Johann Mattheson b) Molière c) Thomas Hobbes d) René Descartes