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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 does Constanze accuse her husband of doing?
(a) Sleeping with Katharina Cavalieri.
(b) Sleeping in every day and not doing any work to earn them money.
(c) Sleeping with all his female pupils.
(d) Having an affair with the Princess Elizabeth.

2. What other virtue does Salieri relinquish?
(a) Social virtue: he resigns from all his committees.
(b) The virtue of abstinence: he eats and drinks lavishly.
(c) The virtue of kindness: he is excessively mean to people.
(d) The virtue of love: he now hates everyone and intends to use them.

3. Salieri describes the opera's music as an excellent match for what?
(a) The lead soprano's voice.
(b) Vulgar tastes.
(c) Mozart's vulgar coat.
(d) Viennese tastes.

4. Who formally introduces Mozart and Salieri?
(a) The Emperor Joseph II.
(b) Constanze Weber.
(c) Count Orsini-Rosenberg.
(d) Van Swieten.

5. What does Salieri say is the effect of the slowness in the music?
(a) Serenity.
(b) Opulence.
(c) Patience.
(d) Boredom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the problem concerning The Marriage of Figaro?

2. How does Salieri find out that Mozart has arrived in Vienna?

3. What strange insight does Mozart seem to have regarding the Figaro problems?

4. What does Salieri view as the secret of successful living?

5. How is the Venticelli's speech described?

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