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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the effect of the Emperor's yawn?
(a) Encores will be banned in the future.
(b) Mozart is crushed emotionally and Salieri is delighted.
(c) The opera is hardly every performed.
(d) Mozart is crushed emotionally and Salieri must show his sympathy.

2. Which character receives a kiss from Salieri?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Katharina Cavalieri.
(c) Constanze Weber.
(d) His wife.

3. What does Salieri ask of the audience/'Ghosts of the future'?
(a) To intercede for him with the saints.
(b) To be his confessors.
(c) To recognise his music.
(d) To praise his music.

4. How old was Mozart when the Emperor last met him?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) Sixteen.

5. Who presently holds the position Salieri covets?
(a) Giuseppe Bonno.
(b) Count Von Oslo.
(c) Count Von Strack.
(d) Louis Van Beethoven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the Venticelli's speech described?

2. In what way does Salieri demonstrate his abandonment of his vow of chastity?

3. What animal is Mozart pretending to be?

4. When Salieri left Italy, how old was Mozart?

5. What influences Mozart to make wildly tactless utterings at Bonno's house?

(see the answer key)

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