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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What insight does Salieri experience when he hears 'Marten Aller Arten' being sung?
(a) He understands religious ecstasy.
(b) He understands that the soprano is flighty.
(c) He understands that this is just how music ought to be written.
(d) He understands that Mozart has had sex with the singer.

3. What quality does Salieri say he requires in a wife?
(a) Musical talent.
(b) Lack of fire.
(c) Ability to bear children.
(d) Feistiness.

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

5. Which Mozart opera is being performed in this scene?
(a) Don Giovanni.
(b) La Cenerentola.
(c) The Abduction from the Seraglio.
(d) Cosi Fan Tutte.

6. Who prompts the Emperor's response to the opera?
(a) Salieri.
(b) The Venticelli.
(c) Count Orsini-Rosenberg.
(d) Baron Van Swieten.

7. What is holding up Wolfgang's and Constanze's marriage?
(a) They are awaiting Leopold Mozart's permission.
(b) They are awaiting the Emperor's permission.
(c) They are trying to find a good apartment to rent.
(d) They are still saving up for the reception.

8. In which room at the Baroness's does Salieri first see Mozart?
(a) The ballroom.
(b) The atrium.
(c) The music room.
(d) The library.

9. How is the Venticelli's speech described?
(a) They speak urgently, rapidly.
(b) They shout loudly.
(c) They are said to be laconic.
(d) They speak in tongues.

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

11. How does Salieri intend to adapt the Legend of Danaius?
(a) As a comic opera in six acts.
(b) As a chamber opera for four voices and a crumhorn.
(c) As a huge tragic opera.
(d) As a huge choral symphony.

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

13. How does Salieri find out that Mozart has arrived in Vienna?
(a) Count Rosenberg tells him.
(b) The Venticelli tell him.
(c) His wife tells him.
(d) The Emperor tells him.

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

15. What caused Mozart's death, according to the Venticelli?
(a) Rheumatic fever.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Puerperal fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invites Salieri to join the Masons?

2. What position is Mozart interested in applying for?

3. How does Mozart insult Count Orsini-Rosenberg?

4. Who is the lead singer Mozart has engaged?

5. How does Salieri get his hands on some of Mozart's manuscripts?

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