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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. How does Salieri dress in order to frighten Mozart?
(a) As a Janus figure in a green cloak.
(b) In a black cloak and gray mask.
(c) In a gray cloak and mask.
(d) In a part-colored clown suit.

2. Despite being unable to block the production, how does Salieri feel at the first performance of Figaro?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Strangely exhilerated.
(c) Strangely excited.
(d) Strange and light-headed.

3. Who does Mozart blame for his disappoint in the matter of Princess Elizabeth?
(a) Constanze.
(b) Salieri.
(c) Himself.
(d) His father.

4. What is frightening Constanze?
(a) The possibility of Mozart being expelled from the Masonic Lodge.
(b) Mozart and the story of his dream.
(c) Their poverty.
(d) Having a second baby.

5. What is it that Mozart intends to adapt and include in his vaudeville opera?
(a) Secret Masonic rituals.
(b) Obscure Catholic rituals.
(c) A Requiem Mass.
(d) Secrets of Dionysus

Short Answer Questions

1. What troubles does Mozart tell Salieri he has?

2. What is the effect of the Emperor's yawn?

3. About whom does the Emperor make the comment: 'I daresay he can't do much harm'?

4. What suggestion does Salieri make to Mozart?

5. How does Salieri now plan to destroy Mozart?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way is his son's description of Leopold Mozart ironic?

2. What is the significance of 'the figure in gray' that haunts Mozart's dreams?

3. How is the Emperor a danger to Salieri's plan to destroy Mozart?

4. How does Salieri's power over Mozart intensify?

5. What are the indications of decline that Salieri observes when he meets Wolfgang and Constanze in the Prater?

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

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

8. What does Mozart tell Salieri at the end of this section of the play?

9. How does Mozart respond to the news about his salary?

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

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