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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where has Mozart been living prior to his arrival in Vienna?
(a) Salzburg.
(b) Melk.
(c) Prague.
(d) Bonn.

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

7. Who formally introduces Mozart and Salieri?
(a) Constanze Weber.
(b) Van Swieten.
(c) The Emperor Joseph II.
(d) Count Orsini-Rosenberg.

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

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

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

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

12. How does Mozart defend his work?
(a) He tells the Emperor it is the best opera ever written in Europe.
(b) He says it is exciting.
(c) He says it is in German, so people will understand it.
(d) He says it is full of proper German virtues.

13. Who presently holds the position Salieri covets?
(a) Giuseppe Bonno.
(b) Count Von Strack.
(c) Louis Van Beethoven.
(d) Count Von Oslo.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Salieri say is the title of his last work?

3. Who is the lead singer Mozart has engaged?

4. What is Salieri's burning ambition at this time of his life?

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

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