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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Salieri say he was born?
(a) Northern Hispaniola.
(b) Northern Italy.
(c) Sardinia.
(d) Southern Italy.

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

3. How does Salieri feel after examining Mozart's manuscripts?
(a) Excited at the new talent in Austria.
(b) Amused because Mozart is not as clever as he thought.
(c) Humbled in face of Mozart's huge talent.
(d) Reasuured because all of them are quite ordinary.

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

5. What solo instrument sounds a single note?
(a) An organ.
(b) An oboe.
(c) A crumhorn.
(d) A viola.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who presently holds the position Salieri covets?

2. How does Mozart defend his work?

3. How does Salieri describe 'Marten Aller Arten'?

4. Which Mozart opera is being performed in this scene?

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

(see the answer key)

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