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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ironic about court musicians and their employers?
(a) The music is forgettable because the Emperor will pass away.
(b) Rich people are mediocre.
(c) The music will be remembered long after the politics of the time is forgotten.
(d) Everyone is mediocre and everything is a waste of time.

2. How does Mozart defend his work?
(a) He says it is full of proper German virtues.
(b) He says it is in German, so people will understand it.
(c) He says it is exciting.
(d) He tells the Emperor it is the best opera ever written in Europe.

3. Who wants the new comic opera to be in 'good plain German?'
(a) Rosenberg.
(b) The Emperor.
(c) Leopold Mozart.
(d) Salieri.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What excuse does Salieri offer for not himself trying some variations on the march of welcome?

2. To what does Salieri compare the opening measures of the music he hears?

3. How old is Salieri in the first scene of the play?

4. What wicked vision does Salieri say he now has?

5. How does Salieri refer to his servants?

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