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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. In the context of the play, how long has it been since Mozart's death?
(a) Thirty-two years.
(b) Fifty-three years.
(c) Thirty-four years.
(d) Thirty years.

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 has the power to charm birds and animals.
(c) He finds it is angelic, heavenly.
(d) He believes it is like the voice of God.

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

4. Who wants the new comic opera to be in 'good plain German?'
(a) Salieri.
(b) The Emperor.
(c) Rosenberg.
(d) Leopold Mozart.

5. In what language does Salieri speak when he is excited, according to one of the Venticelli?
(a) Flemish.
(b) German.
(c) English.
(d) Italian

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Mozart to stop his silliness on this occasion?

2. What animal is Constanze imitating?

3. How old is Salieri in the first scene of the play?

4. What solo instrument sounds a single note?

5. How does Salieri reward his Venticelli?

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