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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 relationship to Salieri is Katharina Cavalieri?
(a) She is his patron and later his mistress.
(b) She is his pupil and later his mistress.
(c) She is his illegitimate daughter.
(d) She is his half-sister and later his pupil.

2. To what does Salieri compare the opening measures of the music he hears?
(a) A tired crumhorn.
(b) A rusty triangle.
(c) A dusty oboe.
(d) A rusty squeezebox.

3. To which character does Salieri give the name La Statua?
(a) Baroness Waldstadten.
(b) Constanze Mozart.
(c) Teresa Salieri
(d) Princess Elizabeth.

4. How does Salieri cope with his insight into Mozart's talent?
(a) He composes an opera about it.
(b) He complains to one of his committees.
(c) He falls into depression.
(d) He throws himself into work.

5. What is Salieri's burning ambition at this time of his life?
(a) To become the Court Composer.
(b) To become First Royal Kapellmeister.
(c) To have seven sons, all musicians.
(d) To write the perfect opera.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the Venticelli's speech described?

2. What influences Mozart to make wildly tactless utterings at Bonno's house?

3. What is Salieri determined now to do?

4. What does Salieri feel he needs to make his 'last audience' appear?

5. How does Salieri get his hands on some of Mozart's manuscripts?

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