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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 does Salieri view as the secret of successful living?
(a) Always knowing what is going on behind your back.
(b) Always knowing what your publisher is doing behind your back.
(c) Always knowing how to get the best value at the markets.
(d) Always knowing what your wife is doing behind your back.

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

3. What animal is Constanze imitating?
(a) A mouse.
(b) A furry puppy.
(c) A vole.
(d) A pussy-cat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What words are whispered at the beginning of the play?

3. Which notable woman is the Emperor's sister?

4. How does Salieri cope with his insight into Mozart's talent?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Salieri rush out into the street on hearing Mozart's music?

2. What story does the Emperor tell to Mozart?

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

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

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

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

7. In what way is the 'calf-measuring scene' ironic?

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

9. What does this scene show us of Mozart's talent?

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

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