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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Salieri say he was born?
(a) Northern Italy.
(b) Northern Hispaniola.
(c) Sardinia.
(d) Southern Italy.

3. What words are whispered at the beginning of the play?
(a) 'Salieri' and 'assassin.'
(b) 'Salieri' and 'companion.'
(c) 'Celery' and 'assassin.'
(d) 'Mozart' and 'Beethoven.'

4. What does Mozart intend to do in Vienna?
(a) Apply for Salieri's job.
(b) Kiss the Emperor's hand.
(c) Give concerts.
(d) Hide from his father.

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) Amused because Mozart is not as clever as he thought.
(d) Reasuured because all of them are quite ordinary.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Salieri get his hands on some of Mozart's manuscripts?

2. To what does Salieri compare the opening measures of the music he hears?

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

4. What solo instrument sounds a single note?

5. What was Salieri's home town?

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