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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Constanze do with the last of their money?
(a) She goes to Bonn in Germany.
(b) She travels to Prague to meet a lover.
(c) She goes to the spa in Baden, Germany.
(d) She gives it to her mother.

3. What intensely special quality does Salieri believe Mozart's music possesses?
(a) He finds it is angelic, heavenly.
(b) He believes it is like the voice of God.
(c) He believes it is revolutionary in its atonal structure.
(d) He believes it has the power to charm birds and animals.

4. What is the final blow for Mozart?
(a) His unmasking of Salieri and recognition of his villainous betrayal.
(b) The unmasking of Salieri and his despair over money.
(c) A letter from Constanze saying she will never return.
(d) His unmasking of Salieri and his despair over the damaged manuscript.

5. What people are the chorus members meant to represent?
(a) Nineteenth century citizens of Verona.
(b) Eighteenth century citizens of Vienna.
(c) Salieri's cousins and nineteenth century neighbors.
(d) Nineteenth century citizens of Venezia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What insight does Salieri experience when he hears 'Marten Aller Arten' being sung?

2. What is the tone of Salieri's comment that 'Our religion' is largely based on waxworks?

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

4. How has Salieri's career progressed?

5. Despite being unable to block the production, how does Salieri feel at the first performance of Figaro?

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