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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old is Salieri in the first scene of the play?
(a) Seventy-two.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Thirty-two.

3. How does Salieri feel after examining Mozart's manuscripts?
(a) Excited at the new talent in Austria.
(b) Humbled in face of Mozart's huge talent.
(c) Reasuured because all of them are quite ordinary.
(d) Amused because Mozart is not as clever as he thought.

4. What words are whispered at the beginning of the play?
(a) 'Salieri' and 'assassin.'
(b) 'Mozart' and 'Beethoven.'
(c) 'Salieri' and 'companion.'
(d) 'Celery' and 'assassin.'

5. Where does Salieri say he was born?
(a) Northern Hispaniola.
(b) Sardinia.
(c) Northern Italy.
(d) Southern Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal is Constanze imitating?

2. Who was an influential teacher of Salieri?

3. How does Mozart react when the Major-Domo enters?

4. What does Salieri feel he needs to make his 'last audience' appear?

5. What is Rosenberg's opinion of prodigies?

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