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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Music from which of Mozart's operas is played as Salieri muses during the transition between scenes?
(a) Idomeneo.
(b) Cosi Fan Tutte.
(c) Florestan.
(d) The Magic Flute.

2. Who prompts the Emperor's response to the opera?
(a) The Venticelli.
(b) Baron Van Swieten.
(c) Salieri.
(d) Count Orsini-Rosenberg.

3. How does Salieri now plan to destroy Mozart?
(a) By getting the Venticelli to spread malicious rumors.
(b) By driving him into destitution.
(c) By poisoning him with arsenic.
(d) By turning Constanze against him.

4. What is Salieri's reaction to the young couple's goings-on?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He thinks it is outrageously funny.
(c) He is indifferent.
(d) He is appalled.

5. What intensely special quality does Salieri believe Mozart's music possesses?
(a) He believes it is like the voice of God.
(b) He believes it is revolutionary in its atonal structure.
(c) He finds it is angelic, heavenly.
(d) He believes it has the power to charm birds and animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What influences Mozart to make wildly tactless utterings at Bonno's house?

2. What wish of Salieri's is granted at this point?

3. Salieri describes the opera's music as an excellent match for what?

4. How does Mozart insult Count Orsini-Rosenberg?

5. How does Mozart react to news of his salary?

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