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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 Constanze do with the last of their money?
(a) She travels to Prague to meet a lover.
(b) She gives it to her mother.
(c) She goes to Bonn in Germany.
(d) She goes to the spa in Baden, Germany.

2. Which character has been deeply upset by Mozart's desperate behavior?
(a) The Baroness.
(b) The Emperor Joseph II.
(c) Salieri.
(d) Van Swieten.

3. Who is the Guilty Libertine Salieri refers to?
(a) Leopold Mozart.
(b) Antonio Salieri himself.
(c) Don Giovanni.
(d) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

4. Salieri's comments about the Viennese suggest they are . . .
(a) Devious.
(b) Cultured.
(c) Tasteful.
(d) Shallow.

5. Of what does Van Swieten accuse Mozart?
(a) Of betraying Austria through Masonic rituals.
(b) Of betraying his wife with a vulgar woman.
(c) Of betraying Salieri by sleeping with his mistress.
(d) Of betraying the Masonic Lodge and vulgarizing its rituals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mozart's response when the figure (Salieri) beckons under his window?

2. How does Salieri refer to Mozart?

3. What is the meaning of the gestures Salieri makes outside Mozart's window?

4. Who does Mozart blame for his disappoint in the matter of Princess Elizabeth?

5. What word describes Salieri's success and what he has bought with it?

Short Essay Questions

1. Comment on Salieri's actions as Mozart's illness and obsession overtake him.

2. What is unusual about Mozart's vision of opera?

3. In what way does Salieri scheme to spoil the production of The Marriage of Figaro?

4. What significant observations about art does Salieri make?

5. Comment on the philosophical contrast between Mozart and Van Swieten and Von Strack.

6. What is the importance of the scene in which Salieri's home is contrasted with that of the Mozart family?

7. Comment on the irony of Salieri's situation at the end of this section of the play.

8. What is implied by the Emperor's comment to Salieri regarding music and the Princess Elizabeth?

9. In what way does Salieri use the information from the Venticelli to take further action against Mozart?

10. In what way is Mozart 'resurrected'?

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