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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Salieri physical pain as he listens to the piece?
(a) Its intense beauty.
(b) Its frequent strange modulations.
(c) Its discord and atonality.
(d) The number of notes--there are too many to follow.

2. What intensely special quality does Salieri believe Mozart's music possesses?
(a) He believes it is revolutionary in its atonal structure.
(b) He believes it is like the voice of God.
(c) He believes it has the power to charm birds and animals.
(d) He finds it is angelic, heavenly.

3. Salieri describes the opera's music as an excellent match for what?
(a) The lead soprano's voice.
(b) Mozart's vulgar coat.
(c) Viennese tastes.
(d) Vulgar tastes.

4. What word does Mozart use to describe the singer he has engaged to play the lead in his opera?
(a) Extroverted.
(b) Exquisite.
(c) Excessively beautiful.
(d) Extra talented.

5. How does Salieri finally realize the extent of Mozart's talent?
(a) He sneaks into a concert and hears the Clarinet Concerto.
(b) He reads the manuscripts Constanze has left.
(c) He is given a report by the Venticelli.
(d) He reads the manuscript of Don Giovanni.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Salieri feel after examining Mozart's manuscripts?

2. What is meant by the words 'one must avoid music that smells of music'?

3. How old was Mozart when the Emperor last met him?

4. What nationality is Katharina Cavalieri?

5. What does Salieri do, in his pain?

(see the answer key)

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