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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Mozart first travel to London?
(a) The previous year, for a concert tour.
(b) When he was twenty.
(c) When he was a child.
(d) Mozart has never been to London.

3. What is Salieri's reaction to the young couple's goings-on?
(a) He is appalled.
(b) He is indifferent.
(c) He is angry.
(d) He thinks it is outrageously funny.

4. Which Mozart opera is being performed in this scene?
(a) La Cenerentola.
(b) Don Giovanni.
(c) Cosi Fan Tutte.
(d) The Abduction from the Seraglio.

5. How does Salieri feel after examining Mozart's manuscripts?
(a) Excited at the new talent in Austria.
(b) Humbled in face of Mozart's huge talent.
(c) Reasuured because all of them are quite ordinary.
(d) Amused because Mozart is not as clever as he thought.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What wish of Salieri's is granted at this point?

3. How does Salieri describe Mozart at the end of this scene?

4. What position is Mozart interested in applying for?

5. What does Salieri find a compensation for ghastly encounters at the Baroness's?

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