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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Salieri in the first scene of the play?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Seventy-two.
(d) Thirty-two.

2. What kind of love does Mozart claim his opera contains?
(a) Unrequited love.
(b) Young love.
(c) Sacrificial love.
(d) Manly love, real love.

3. How does Salieri get his hands on some of Mozart's manuscripts?
(a) He steals them.
(b) He bribes a servant to steal them.
(c) The Venticelli bring them to him.
(d) He buys them from a second-hand dealer.

4. What people are the chorus members meant to represent?
(a) Salieri's cousins and nineteenth century neighbors.
(b) Nineteenth century citizens of Verona.
(c) Nineteenth century citizens of Venezia.
(d) Eighteenth century citizens of Vienna.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mozart defend his work?

2. What does Salieri feel he needs to make his 'last audience' appear?

3. What word does Mozart use to describe the singer he has engaged to play the lead in his opera?

4. Who picks the child Mozart up after his fall?

5. What causes Mozart to stop his silliness on this occasion?

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