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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Salieri cope with his insight into Mozart's talent?
(a) He falls into depression.
(b) He composes an opera about it.
(c) He throws himself into work.
(d) He complains to one of his committees.

2. How does the audience react to the opera's finale?
(a) With boos and catcalls.
(b) With great disgust.
(c) With great applause.
(d) With polite applause.

3. How does Salieri find out that Mozart has arrived in Vienna?
(a) The Venticelli tell him.
(b) Count Rosenberg tells him.
(c) His wife tells him.
(d) The Emperor tells him.

4. Which is Salieri's favorite sweet indulgence?
(a) Crema al mascarpone.
(b) Tutti frutti.
(c) Gelato.
(d) Tiramisu.

5. What intensely special quality does Salieri believe Mozart's music possesses?
(a) He believes it has the power to charm birds and animals.
(b) He finds it is angelic, heavenly.
(c) He believes it is revolutionary in its atonal structure.
(d) He believes it is like the voice of God.

6. Who invites Salieri to join the Masons?
(a) Count Rosenberg.
(b) Baron Van Swieten.
(c) Leopold Mozart.
(d) Emperor Joseph II

7. What words are whispered at the beginning of the play?
(a) 'Salieri' and 'assassin.'
(b) 'Salieri' and 'companion.'
(c) 'Celery' and 'assassin.'
(d) 'Mozart' and 'Beethoven.'

8. Into which well-known piece does Mozart transform Salieri's march of welcome?
(a) The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla.
(b) The march from The Marriage of Figaro.
(c) The Grand March from Aida.
(d) The Finale from The Abduction From the Seraglio.

9. Where does Salieri finally meet Mozart?
(a) At the Statsoper.
(b) At Baroness Waldstadten's.
(c) At the Imperial Palace.
(d) At the Belvedere.

10. What philosophic age does Salieri refer to in his first speech for this section of the play?
(a) The Age of the Feuilletons.
(b) The Age of Modernism.
(c) The Age of Englightenment
(d) The Platonic Age.

11. What caused Mozart's death, according to the Venticelli?
(a) Rheumatic fever.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Puerperal fever.

12. What causes Mozart to stop his silliness on this occasion?
(a) Constanze's annoyance.
(b) Respect for the Baroness.
(c) The mention of his father.
(d) The idea for some new music.

13. What word does Mozart use to describe the singer he has engaged to play the lead in his opera?
(a) Extroverted.
(b) Excessively beautiful.
(c) Extra talented.
(d) Exquisite.

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

15. Who is named as an old pupil of Salieri's?
(a) Johann Strauss II.
(b) Richard Strauss.
(c) Beethoven.
(d) Leopold Mozart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is Katharina Cavalieri?

2. How did Salieri's family feel about the Austrian Empire?

3. What is meant by the words 'one must avoid music that smells of music'?

4. What quality does Salieri say he requires in a wife?

5. What does Salieri view as the secret of successful living?

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