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

2. Which notable woman is the Emperor's sister?
(a) Marie Antionette.
(b) Maria Theresa.
(c) Marie Ste Juste.
(d) Marie Curie.

3. What makes Von Strack very cross?
(a) That Salieri is after his position.
(b) That Mozart has finished the opera very quickly.
(c) That Mozart's opera is already in rehearsal.
(d) That Salieri and Orsini-Rosenberg speak before him in Italian.

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

5. Why does Mozart dislike operas about lofty individuals and ancient heroes?
(a) He thinks all opera should be funny.
(b) He believes opera should be about real people.
(c) He believes they are too hard for singers to master.
(d) He believes this will make the art form decline.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was an influential teacher of Salieri?

2. Who writes an opera that is the talk of the city of Vienna, according to the Venticelli?

3. How did Salieri's family feel about the Austrian Empire?

4. How does Salieri refer to Mozart?

5. Who is the Guilty Libertine Salieri refers to?

(see the answer key)

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