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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What kind of work has the Emperor commissioned Mozart to write?
(a) A concerto.
(b) A string quartet.
(c) An opera.
(d) A symphony.

4. Why is a party being held at Baroness Waldstadten's?
(a) To celebrate Salieri's birthday.
(b) To celebrate the Feast of the Assumption.
(c) To celebrate the Emperor's birthday.
(d) To celebrate New Year's Eve.

5. What causes Salieri physical pain as he listens to the piece?
(a) The number of notes--there are too many to follow.
(b) Its discord and atonality.
(c) Its intense beauty.
(d) Its frequent strange modulations.

6. What is meant by the words 'one must avoid music that smells of music'?
(a) Music must be avoided if it is too passionate.
(b) Wind musicians should clean their instruments regularly.
(c) Only new music should be played, not works that have been on library shelves for years.
(d) Music should not be too showy.

7. In what language does Salieri speak when he is excited, according to one of the Venticelli?
(a) Flemish.
(b) Italian
(c) English.
(d) German.

8. What is Salieri's reaction to the young couple's goings-on?
(a) He is appalled.
(b) He thinks it is outrageously funny.
(c) He is angry.
(d) He is indifferent.

9. What animal is Mozart pretending to be?
(a) A cat.
(b) A fox.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A squirrel.

10. Which is Salieri's favorite sweet indulgence?
(a) Tiramisu.
(b) Crema al mascarpone.
(c) Gelato.
(d) Tutti frutti.

11. What influences Mozart to make wildly tactless utterings at Bonno's house?
(a) He has been listening to Salieri's Venticelli.
(b) Alcohol--he is drunk.
(c) His arrogance.
(d) He has been taking laudanum.

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

13. Into which well-known piece does Mozart transform Salieri's march of welcome?
(a) The Grand March from Aida.
(b) The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla.
(c) The march from The Marriage of Figaro.
(d) The Finale from The Abduction From the Seraglio.

14. How does Mozart insult Count Orsini-Rosenberg?
(a) He tells him he looks like a toad.
(b) He tells him he is fat as a toad.
(c) He tells him he looks like a turd.
(d) He makes an obscene gesture and laughs.

15. What kind of love does Mozart claim his opera contains?
(a) Young love.
(b) Manly love, real love.
(c) Unrequited love.
(d) Sacrificial love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Salieri say he was born?

2. What wicked vision does Salieri say he now has?

3. What animal is Constanze imitating?

4. What does Salieri do, in his pain?

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

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