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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Salieri feel he needs to make his 'last audience' appear?
(a) A circumlocution.
(b) A salutation.
(c) An invocation.
(d) An imbrocation.

3. Salieri describes the opera's music as an excellent match for what?
(a) Vulgar tastes.
(b) Viennese tastes.
(c) Mozart's vulgar coat.
(d) The lead soprano's voice.

4. Who invites Salieri to join the Masons?
(a) Baron Van Swieten.
(b) Emperor Joseph II
(c) Count Rosenberg.
(d) Leopold Mozart.

5. How does Salieri describe 'Marten Aller Arten'?
(a) He describes it as the most banal aria he has ever heard.
(b) He describes it as astoundingly beautiful.
(c) He describes it as having too many notes.
(d) He describes it as the showiest aria he has ever heard.

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

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

8. How does Salieri reward his Venticelli?
(a) He gives them cakes.
(b) He gives them money.
(c) He gets them jobs at the palace.
(d) He buys them dinner.

9. What family dynasty rules in Vienna?
(a) The Hapsburgs.
(b) The Bourbons.
(c) The Hollsteins.
(d) The Bonbons.

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

11. How does Mozart react when the Major-Domo enters?
(a) He is happy.
(b) He is embarrassed.
(c) He is excited and full of anticipation.
(d) He is annoyed.

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

13. What does Mozart intend to do in Vienna?
(a) Kiss the Emperor's hand.
(b) Hide from his father.
(c) Give concerts.
(d) Apply for Salieri's job.

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

15. Which character receives a kiss from Salieri?
(a) Katharina Cavalieri.
(b) His wife.
(c) Constanze Weber.
(d) Mozart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who picks the child Mozart up after his fall?

2. How does Salieri cope with his insight into Mozart's talent?

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

4. What people are the chorus members meant to represent?

5. How does Salieri describe Mozart at the end of this scene?

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