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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality does Salieri say he requires in a wife?
(a) Feistiness.
(b) Lack of fire.
(c) Ability to bear children.
(d) Musical talent.

2. What does Salieri know that the Venticelli do not?
(a) Mozart is writing secretly to Schikaneder.
(b) Mozart is writing his clarinet concerto.
(c) Mozart is writing long letters to Constanze.
(d) Mozart is writing his Requiem Mass.

3. Of what does Van Swieten accuse Mozart?
(a) Of betraying the Masonic Lodge and vulgarizing its rituals.
(b) Of betraying Austria through Masonic rituals.
(c) Of betraying his wife with a vulgar woman.
(d) Of betraying Salieri by sleeping with his mistress.

4. With news of his father's death, what aspects of himself does Mozart now reveal?
(a) His vulverability and shame.
(b) His towering ego and indifference.
(c) His morbid tendencies and his hunger for money.
(d) His childishness and dependence.

5. What is Rosenberg's opinion of prodigies?
(a) He is jealous of them.
(b) He finds them adorable.
(c) He is in awe of them.
(d) He finds them hateful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Emperor's judgment of the opera.

2. What does Constanze accuse her husband of doing?

3. How is the Emperor likely to foil Salieri's plans?

4. What is ironic about court musicians and their employers?

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

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