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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 'It celebrates . . . the goddess in Woman and not the laundress' is a reference to what>
(a) Opera.
(b) Drama.
(c) Lieder.
(d) The Feast of the Annunciation.

4. What salary does Salieri recommend Mozart be paid?
(a) Two hundred florins a month.
(b) Two hundred florins a year.
(c) Two thousand florins a year.
(d) Two hundred florins a week.

5. How does Salieri refer to Mozart?
(a) As the Creeper.
(b) As the Creation.
(c) As the Creature.
(d) As the Croatian.

6. Why do Constanze and Wolfgang stop their private game?
(a) Constanze goes into labor.
(b) They are tired and cold.
(c) Constanze faints.
(d) They hear Salieri coming.

7. What is the final blow for Mozart?
(a) A letter from Constanze saying she will never return.
(b) His unmasking of Salieri and his despair over the damaged manuscript.
(c) The unmasking of Salieri and his despair over money.
(d) His unmasking of Salieri and recognition of his villainous betrayal.

8. What does Mozart disclose to Salieri at the beginning of the next scene?
(a) That he is ill and worried about money.
(b) That he has been commissioned to write a Mass.
(c) That he has a new idea for an operatic piece.
(d) That he is doing badly--no money and no prospect of earning any.

9. What does Mozart suggest is the answer to his problems?
(a) He could go to England, where music is loved.
(b) He could go to Prague to premiere an opera.
(c) He could apply to the Emperor for a new position.
(d) He could find more pupils.

10. How had Mozart disobeyed his father?
(a) By working for the Emperor.
(b) By leaving Salzburg.
(c) By marrying against his advice.
(d) By composing The Abduction from the Seraglio.

11. What event has taken place in the Mozart household?
(a) A baby son has been born.
(b) Leopold Mozart has come to live with Wolfgang and Constanze.
(c) A baby daughter has been born.
(d) Their servant has had a baby boy.

12. How is the Emperor likely to foil Salieri's plans?
(a) By offering Mozart a court position.
(b) By sending Salieri away to Italy.
(c) By offering to pay Mozart's rent.
(d) By offering Mozart an apartment at the palace.

13. Who is the Guilty Libertine Salieri refers to?
(a) Don Giovanni.
(b) Leopold Mozart.
(c) Antonio Salieri himself.
(d) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What works has Mozart written during the same time?

2. How does Salieri dress in order to frighten Mozart?

3. What does Van Swieten call a 'stupid, hopeless task?'

4. What is Mozart's response to Constanze's dancing?

5. What is Mozart's response when the figure (Salieri) beckons under his window?

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