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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Baron Van Swieten's nickname?
(a) 'Pianocello.'
(b) 'Lord Van Fugue.'
(c) 'Wolferl.'
(d) 'Lord Fugue.'

3. How is the Venticelli's speech described?
(a) They speak urgently, rapidly.
(b) They speak in tongues.
(c) They are said to be laconic.
(d) They shout loudly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salieri say is the title of his last work?

2. What philosophic age does Salieri refer to in his first speech for this section of the play?

3. What quality does Salieri say he requires in a wife?

4. What caused Mozart's death, according to the Venticelli?

5. In what language does Salieri speak when he is excited, according to one of the Venticelli?

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