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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Salieri refer to his servants?
(a) As the Kappellmeister's Baker and The Keeper of the Salt.
(b) As The Keeper of the Purse and The Maker of the Cakes.
(c) As The gossiping Ventrecelli.
(d) As The Keeper of the Razor and The Maker of the Cakes.

2. What intensely special quality does Salieri believe Mozart's music possesses?
(a) He believes it is like the voice of God.
(b) He believes it is revolutionary in its atonal structure.
(c) He finds it is angelic, heavenly.
(d) He believes it has the power to charm birds and animals.

3. What does Salieri do, in his pain?
(a) He screams.
(b) He stuffs his ears so he cannot hear the music.
(c) He runs out into the street.
(d) He demands that Mozart stop playing immediately.

4. What causes Salieri physical pain as he listens to the piece?
(a) The number of notes--there are too many to follow.
(b) Its intense beauty.
(c) Its frequent strange modulations.
(d) Its discord and atonality.

5. How does Mozart defend his work?
(a) He says it is full of proper German virtues.
(b) He tells the Emperor it is the best opera ever written in Europe.
(c) He says it is exciting.
(d) He says it is in German, so people will understand it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words are whispered at the beginning of the play?

2. Who picks the child Mozart up after his fall?

3. What kind of love does Mozart claim his opera contains?

4. What animal is Mozart pretending to be?

5. Who invites Salieri to join the Masons?

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