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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who formally introduces Mozart and Salieri?
(a) Count Orsini-Rosenberg.
(b) Van Swieten.
(c) Constanze Weber.
(d) The Emperor Joseph II.

2. What causes Salieri physical pain as he listens to the piece?
(a) Its discord and atonality.
(b) Its intense beauty.
(c) Its frequent strange modulations.
(d) The number of notes--there are too many to follow.

3. How old is Salieri in the first scene of the play?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Thirty-two.
(c) Seventy-two.
(d) Eighty.

4. What position is Mozart interested in applying for?
(a) Music supervisor for the Emperor.
(b) Music teacher for the Princess Elizabeth.
(c) Court Composer.
(d) Music teacher for Katharina Cavalieri.

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

6. Where has Mozart been living prior to his arrival in Vienna?
(a) Bonn.
(b) Prague.
(c) Salzburg.
(d) Melk.

7. How did Salieri's family feel about the Austrian Empire?
(a) They were happy to be its subjects.
(b) They fought against it at the Battle of Lumbago.
(c) They tolerated it but longed for Italy's unification.
(d) They thought it gave them prestige in Europe.

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

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

10. What does Salieri ask of the audience/'Ghosts of the future'?
(a) To intercede for him with the saints.
(b) To be his confessors.
(c) To recognise his music.
(d) To praise his music.

11. Where is the opera's story set?
(a) In a coffee shop.
(b) In a grand mansion.
(c) In a Masonic lodge.
(d) In a harem.

12. Where is Salieri hidden?
(a) Under a trestle table.
(b) Behind an arras.
(c) Behind the door.
(d) In a wing-backed chair.

13. How does Salieri describe 'Marten Aller Arten'?
(a) He describes it as astoundingly beautiful.
(b) He describes it as having too many notes.
(c) He describes it as the most banal aria he has ever heard.
(d) He describes it as the showiest aria he has ever heard.

14. How does Salieri intend to adapt the Legend of Danaius?
(a) As a huge choral symphony.
(b) As a chamber opera for four voices and a crumhorn.
(c) As a comic opera in six acts.
(d) As a huge tragic opera.

15. How does Mozart react when the Major-Domo enters?
(a) He is embarrassed.
(b) He is happy.
(c) He is annoyed.
(d) He is excited and full of anticipation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who picks the child Mozart up after his fall?

2. What is Salieri's reaction to the young couple's goings-on?

3. How does Salieri describe Mozart at the end of this scene?

4. What solo instrument sounds a single note?

5. What does Salieri do, in his pain?

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