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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What strange insight does Mozart seem to have regarding the Figaro problems?
(a) That Salieri is behind it all.
(b) That God is conspiring against him.
(c) That God wants him to be humbled.
(d) That Orsini-Rosenberg is behind it all.

2. What nationality is Katharina Cavalieri?
(a) Italian.
(b) American.
(c) French.
(d) German.

3. What does the Emperor say would be fun?
(a) A competition between Mozart and Haydn.
(b) A competition between Mozart and some other virtuoso.
(c) A comic opera by Mozart.
(d) Fetes and fireworks in the courtyard.

4. What is Salieri determined now to do?
(a) To block Mozart, thus serve God more fully.
(b) To block God by writing better music than Mozart can.
(c) To block God in one of his purest manifestations--Mozart.
(d) To serve God all his days.

5. What event has taken place in the Mozart household?
(a) Leopold Mozart has come to live with Wolfgang and Constanze.
(b) A baby daughter has been born.
(c) Their servant has had a baby boy.
(d) A baby son has been born.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Salieri demonstrate his abandonment of his vow of chastity?

2. How does Salieri reward his Venticelli?

3. What do we learn from Van Swieten about Mozart's activities?

4. Where is the opera's story set?

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

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