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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. Who is the Guilty Libertine Salieri refers to?
(a) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
(b) Leopold Mozart.
(c) Antonio Salieri himself.
(d) Don Giovanni.
2. 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.
3. What intensely special quality does Salieri believe Mozart's music possesses?
(a) He believes it has the power to charm birds and animals.
(b) He finds it is angelic, heavenly.
(c) He believes it is like the voice of God.
(d) He believes it is revolutionary in its atonal structure.
4. How does the audience react to the opera's finale?
(a) With boos and catcalls.
(b) With polite applause.
(c) With great disgust.
(d) With great applause.
5. What desperate measure of Mozart's do the Venticelli inform Salieri about?
(a) His pawning his wife's jewelery.
(b) His betting his coat at a card game.
(c) His begging money from the Masons.
(d) His begging in the streets of Vienna.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do we learn from Van Swieten about Mozart's activities?
2. Which character receives a kiss from Salieri?
3. Who is Schikaneder?
4. Why are the Mozarts cold?
5. In conversation with Salieri, what attitude to his father does Mozart display?
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