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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Salieri feel he needs to make his 'last audience' appear?
(a) An invocation.
(b) An imbrocation.
(c) A circumlocution.
(d) A salutation.

4. Why is a party being held at Baroness Waldstadten's?
(a) To celebrate the Feast of the Assumption.
(b) To celebrate the Emperor's birthday.
(c) To celebrate New Year's Eve.
(d) To celebrate Salieri's birthday.

5. How old was Mozart when the Emperor last met him?
(a) Six.
(b) Eight.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Sixteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mozart defend his work?

2. What is Mozart's reaction to Constanze's game with the Venticelli?

3. How does Mozart insult Count Orsini-Rosenberg?

4. How does the audience react to the opera's finale?

5. Who is named as an old pupil of Salieri's?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does Salieri work to undermine Mozart in this section of the play?

2. What is striking about Salieri's description of the Adagio from the Serenade for Thirteen Wind Instruments (K. 361)?

3. Account for Salieri's shout from the chair as he listens to Mozart and Constanze play their bawdy game.

4. What is Van Swieten's attitude to Salieri at this point in the play?

5. Comment on the dramatic function of the Venticelli in the opening scene.

6. Why do reports about Mozart unsettle Salieri?

7. Comment on Salieri's appeal to 'the ghosts of the future'.

8. What happens in this section of the play to fertilize the growing seed of Salieri's murderous ideas?

9. In what way does Salieri contradict himself in the scene in which he attempts to seduce Constanze?

10. How does the play open?

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