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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 does Van Swieten call a 'stupid, hopeless task?'
(a) Teaching Mozart table manners.
(b) Mending Mozart's vulgarity.
(c) Ensuring that Mozart finish commissioned work.
(d) Helping Mozart succeed.

2. In the context of the play, how long has it been since Mozart's death?
(a) Thirty-two years.
(b) Fifty-three years.
(c) Thirty-four years.
(d) Thirty years.

3. How does Mozart view Salieri at this point?
(a) As a kind but impatient man.
(b) As a fine musician.
(c) As an inspiring musician who is good and kind.
(d) As a kind and good man.

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

5. What does Salieri notice about Mozart during the applause for the opera?
(a) His frailty and mortality.
(b) His drunken state.
(c) That he is disappointed in the staging.
(d) His shabby clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the gestures Salieri makes outside Mozart's window?

2. In the staging of The Magic Flute described by Salieri, what does the sun represent?

3. What choice is Mozart given?

4. Who does Salieri claim is the inspiration for the Ghost in Don Giovanni?

5. Which composer wrote the opera Semiramide performed in Munich?

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