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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What solo instrument sounds a single note?
(a) An oboe.
(b) An organ.
(c) A viola.
(d) A crumhorn.
2. What causes Salieri physical pain as he listens to the piece?
(a) The number of notes--there are too many to follow.
(b) Its intense beauty.
(c) Its frequent strange modulations.
(d) Its discord and atonality.
3. What was Salieri's home town?
(a) Legnago.
(b) Lumbago.
(c) Lombardy.
(d) Lingardo.
4. What is Salieri's occupation at this time?
(a) Court Musician.
(b) Court Conductor.
(c) Kappellmeister.
(d) Court Composer.
5. What animal is Constanze imitating?
(a) A pussy-cat.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A vole.
(d) A furry puppy.
6. Who presently holds the position Salieri covets?
(a) Giuseppe Bonno.
(b) Count Von Strack.
(c) Count Von Oslo.
(d) Louis Van Beethoven.
7. Who plays the 'march of welcome' for Mozart?
(a) Von Strack.
(b) Count Orsini-Rosenberg.
(c) The Emperor.
(d) Salieri.
8. What does Salieri feel he needs to make his 'last audience' appear?
(a) A circumlocution.
(b) An invocation.
(c) A salutation.
(d) An imbrocation.
9. How does Salieri intend to adapt the Legend of Danaius?
(a) As a chamber opera for four voices and a crumhorn.
(b) As a huge tragic opera.
(c) As a comic opera in six acts.
(d) As a huge choral symphony.
10. How could Constanze secure for husband the job of tutor to Princess Elizabeth?
(a) By sleeping with Count Rosenberg.
(b) By sleeping with Salieri.
(c) By sending Mozart's CV to Count Rosenberg, along with a bribe.
(d) By bribing Salieri.
11. Where does Salieri say he was born?
(a) Northern Italy.
(b) Northern Hispaniola.
(c) Sardinia.
(d) Southern Italy.
12. What is holding up Wolfgang's and Constanze's marriage?
(a) They are awaiting the Emperor's permission.
(b) They are trying to find a good apartment to rent.
(c) They are awaiting Leopold Mozart's permission.
(d) They are still saving up for the reception.
13. What surprises Salieri's servants?
(a) That he is sick of eating cakes.
(b) That he will eat cakes in bed that night.
(c) That he will shave himself in future.
(d) His declaration that he will not go to bed that night.
14. Who wants the new comic opera to be in 'good plain German?'
(a) The Emperor.
(b) Leopold Mozart.
(c) Rosenberg.
(d) Salieri.
15. What words are whispered at the beginning of the play?
(a) 'Celery' and 'assassin.'
(b) 'Salieri' and 'companion.'
(c) 'Mozart' and 'Beethoven.'
(d) 'Salieri' and 'assassin.'
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is a party being held at Baroness Waldstadten's?
2. What is ironic about court musicians and their employers?
3. How old was Mozart when the Emperor last met him?
4. What is the Emperor's judgment of the opera.
5. How does Mozart react when the Major-Domo enters?
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