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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word describes Salieri's success and what he has bought with it?
(a) 'Deliberate' for the way he has made things happen and the way he has decorated his house.
(b) The word 'lavish' to connect praise and furnishings.
(c) The adjective 'golden'--for opinions and the furniture that reflects his success.
(d) 'Incomprenensible' to apply to his success and his wife's taste in furniture.

2. What desperate measure of Mozart's do the Venticelli inform Salieri about?
(a) His pawning his wife's jewelery.
(b) His betting his coat at a card game.
(c) His begging in the streets of Vienna.
(d) His begging money from the Masons.

3. Why does Mozart dislike operas about lofty individuals and ancient heroes?
(a) He believes opera should be about real people.
(b) He thinks all opera should be funny.
(c) He believes they are too hard for singers to master.
(d) He believes this will make the art form decline.

4. What does Salieri find a compensation for ghastly encounters at the Baroness's?
(a) The creative ideas that follow.
(b) Eating eclairs in secret.
(c) His favorite crema al mascarpone.
(d) Watching Mozart suffer.

5. Why did Van Swieten attend the performance?
(a) Salieri suggested it.
(b) Out of simple suriosity.
(c) The Emperor suggested it.
(d) He'd heard gossip about it at the Masonic Lodge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What salary does Salieri recommend Mozart be paid?

2. What other virtue does Salieri relinquish?

3. What does Salieri know that the Venticelli do not?

4. What new work is Mozart considering?

5. Why do Constanze and Wolfgang stop their private game?

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