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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mozart describe opera's importance?
(a) He says it is realer than any play.
(b) He says it will be remembered forever.
(c) He says it will be heard by God.
(d) He says it is safer than any play.

2. What insight does Salieri experience when he hears 'Marten Aller Arten' being sung?
(a) He understands that the soprano is flighty.
(b) He understands religious ecstasy.
(c) He understands that Mozart has had sex with the singer.
(d) He understands that this is just how music ought to be written.

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

4. How has Salieri's career progressed?
(a) He works hard and has some success.
(b) He writes smash hit operas and becomes exceedingly rich and famous.
(c) He is successful, seen as a superior composer to Mozart.
(d) He works hard, writes one hit, then loses favor to Mozart.

5. What did Mozart ask his father to do?
(a) Provide him with an endowment for his son.
(b) Mind his son while he was away in England.
(c) Provide him with an income.
(d) Mind his son while Constanze had a second baby.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What animal is Constanze imitating?

3. What is the effect of the dancers moving in total silence?

4. How does Salieri refer to Mozart?

5. What kind of work has the Emperor commissioned Mozart to write?

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