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1. The coda in which ballet features the lead female doing 32 fouettes (or to be exact, to 32 *counts* of fouettes, which usually turns out to be about 28 and a pull-in)?
2. Which solo has a marked break in the music near the end (before the final menage of piques and fouettes) which generally causes audience members unfamiliar with the solo to start applauding before the solo is over?
3. Which male solo has a million entrechats at the end?
4. Who does hops en pointe across the stage on one foot in Giselle?
5. Which fairy's solo in Act III of Sleeping Beauty is the fastest?
6. Does Siegfried have a solo following Odette's in Act II of "Swan Lake"?
7. In the ballet "Coppelia," does Coppelia have a solo?
8. Which pas de deux has several supported jumps but no real lifts?
9. In Act II of "Giselle," Giselle has a very famous part where she does a series of entrechat-retires followed by entrechats very, very fast. Who also does them in a later, classical ballet?
10. And finally, in which ballet is there NOT a pas de deux with a scarf?
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