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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Mozart opera is being performed in this scene?
(a) Cosi Fan Tutte.
(b) La Cenerentola.
(c) The Abduction from the Seraglio.
(d) Don Giovanni.

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

3. What nationality is Katharina Cavalieri?
(a) American.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) Italian.

4. How does the audience react to the opera's finale?
(a) With great disgust.
(b) With boos and catcalls.
(c) With polite applause.
(d) With great applause.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Orsini-Rosenberg object to The Marriage of Figaro?

2. What does Constanze suggest might cure her husband's bad dreams?

3. Who is Schikaneder?

4. For what reason does Mozart reject the idea of giving more concerts?

5. What strange insight does Mozart seem to have regarding the Figaro problems?

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