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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is the opera's story set?
(a) In a Masonic lodge.
(b) In a coffee shop.
(c) In a harem.
(d) In a grand mansion.

3. What philosophic age does Salieri refer to in his first speech for this section of the play?
(a) The Age of Englightenment
(b) The Age of Modernism.
(c) The Age of the Feuilletons.
(d) The Platonic Age.

4. What is Salieri's occupation at this time?
(a) Court Composer.
(b) Court Conductor.
(c) Court Musician.
(d) Kappellmeister.

5. What causes Mozart to stop his silliness on this occasion?
(a) The idea for some new music.
(b) Constanze's annoyance.
(c) The mention of his father.
(d) Respect for the Baroness.

6. How old was Mozart when the Emperor last met him?
(a) Six.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Eight.
(d) Twelve.

7. Who picks the child Mozart up after his fall?
(a) No-one.
(b) Marie Antionette.
(c) The Emperor's mother.
(d) His mother.

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

9. What surprises Salieri's servants?
(a) His declaration that he will not go to bed that night.
(b) That he is sick of eating cakes.
(c) That he will shave himself in future.
(d) That he will eat cakes in bed that night.

10. Where is Salieri hidden?
(a) In a wing-backed chair.
(b) Behind an arras.
(c) Under a trestle table.
(d) Behind the door.

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

12. What is ironic about court musicians and their employers?
(a) The music is forgettable because the Emperor will pass away.
(b) The music will be remembered long after the politics of the time is forgotten.
(c) Everyone is mediocre and everything is a waste of time.
(d) Rich people are mediocre.

13. What solo instrument sounds a single note?
(a) A crumhorn.
(b) An organ.
(c) An oboe.
(d) A viola.

14. Who wants the new comic opera to be in 'good plain German?'
(a) Rosenberg.
(b) The Emperor.
(c) Salieri.
(d) Leopold Mozart.

15. What wicked vision does Salieri say he now has?
(a) He imagines himself poisoning Mozart.
(b) He imagines himself putting Mozart to the sword.
(c) He sees Mozart chained to a rock for eternity.
(d) He imagines himself seducing Mozart's Constanze.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salieri say is the effect of the slowness in the music?

2. What family dynasty rules in Vienna?

3. What position is Mozart interested in applying for?

4. In which room at the Baroness's does Salieri first see Mozart?

5. Where does Salieri say he was born?

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