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Amadeus Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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

2. Who was an influential teacher of Salieri?
(a) Gluck.
(b) Glock.
(c) Monteverdi.
(d) Glinka.

3. What excuse does Salieri offer for not himself trying some variations on the march of welcome?
(a) He says the Emperor wouldn't like it.
(b) He says his wife is feeling poorly.
(c) He says he has a music lesson to give.
(d) He says he must attend on the Emperor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who formally introduces Mozart and Salieri?

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

3. What causes Mozart to stop his silliness on this occasion?

4. What animal is Mozart pretending to be?

5. What relationship to Salieri is Katharina Cavalieri?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Salieri claim to be different from his parents?

2. Why do reports about Mozart unsettle Salieri?

3. What is important about the discussion between Von Strack, Rosenberg and Van Swieten?

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

5. How does Salieri come to change his mind about meeting Mozart?

6. For what reason might the scene in the Baroness's library be considered ironic?

7. What does Salieri do to cope with the psychic blow he has received through hearing Mozart's music?

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

9. What is the significance of the golden light that bathes the Emperor and his court?

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

(see the answer keys)

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