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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 say is the title of his last work?
(a) The Death of the Bird.
(b) Orlando Furioso.
(c) The Death of Mozart.
(d) The Death of Mediocrity.

2. What philosophic age does Salieri refer to in his first speech for this section of the play?
(a) The Age of Modernism.
(b) The Age of the Feuilletons.
(c) The Platonic Age.
(d) The Age of Englightenment

3. What people are the chorus members meant to represent?
(a) Nineteenth century citizens of Venezia.
(b) Eighteenth century citizens of Vienna.
(c) Nineteenth century citizens of Verona.
(d) Salieri's cousins and nineteenth century neighbors.

4. What was Salieri's home town?
(a) Lombardy.
(b) Legnago.
(c) Lumbago.
(d) Lingardo.

5. Who was an influential teacher of Salieri?
(a) Glinka.
(b) Monteverdi.
(c) Gluck.
(d) Glock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Salieri say he was born?

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

3. How is the Venticelli's speech described?

4. What is Salieri's reaction to the young couple's goings-on?

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

(see the answer key)

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