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

2. What surprises Salieri's servants?
(a) That he is sick of eating cakes.
(b) That he will shave himself in future.
(c) That he will eat cakes in bed that night.
(d) His declaration that he will not go to bed that night.

3. Which Mozart opera is being performed in this scene?
(a) La Cenerentola.
(b) Cosi Fan Tutte.
(c) The Abduction from the Seraglio.
(d) Don Giovanni.

4. What wicked vision does Salieri say he now has?
(a) He sees Mozart chained to a rock for eternity.
(b) He imagines himself poisoning Mozart.
(c) He imagines himself putting Mozart to the sword.
(d) He imagines himself seducing Mozart's Constanze.

5. What family dynasty rules in Vienna?
(a) The Hapsburgs.
(b) The Hollsteins.
(c) The Bonbons.
(d) The Bourbons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Salieri find out that Mozart has arrived in Vienna?

2. Who invites Salieri to join the Masons?

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

4. Which is Salieri's favorite sweet indulgence?

5. Which character receives a kiss from Salieri?

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