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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality does Salieri say he requires in a wife?
(a) Ability to bear children.
(b) Musical talent.
(c) Feistiness.
(d) Lack of fire.

2. What does the Emperor say would be fun?
(a) A comic opera by Mozart.
(b) A competition between Mozart and some other virtuoso.
(c) Fetes and fireworks in the courtyard.
(d) A competition between Mozart and Haydn.

3. Who picks the child Mozart up after his fall?
(a) No-one.
(b) His mother.
(c) Marie Antionette.
(d) The Emperor's mother.

4. What relationship to Salieri is Katharina Cavalieri?
(a) She is his patron and later his mistress.
(b) She is his illegitimate daughter.
(c) She is his pupil and later his mistress.
(d) She is his half-sister and later his pupil.

5. What people are the chorus members meant to represent?
(a) Nineteenth century citizens of Venezia.
(b) Nineteenth century citizens of Verona.
(c) Eighteenth century citizens of Vienna.
(d) Salieri's cousins and nineteenth century neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Baron Van Swieten's nickname?

2. Where is Salieri hidden?

3. What is holding up Wolfgang's and Constanze's marriage?

4. On what instrument does Mozart play Salieri's march?

5. What word does Mozart use to describe the singer he has engaged to play the lead in his opera?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does this scene show us of Mozart's talent?

2. How does Salieri come to change his mind about meeting Mozart?

3. What story does the Emperor tell to Mozart?

4. What concrete information about Mozart is passed to Salieri by the Venticelli?

5. How does the play open?

6. Comment on the conflict in this library scene.

7. In what way does Salieri claim to be different from his parents?

8. Account for Salieri's shout from the chair as he listens to Mozart and Constanze play their bawdy game.

9. What is Salieri hinting at when he says his servants will be 'even more surprised tomorrow'?

10. For what reason might the scene in the Baroness's library be considered ironic?

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