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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to Leopold Mozart's letters?
(a) Constanze has burned them.
(b) Constanze has sold them.
(c) Wolfgang has sold them to a library.
(d) Wolfgang has donated them to a library.

2. Salieri's comments about the Viennese suggest they are . . .
(a) Cultured.
(b) Devious.
(c) Shallow.
(d) Tasteful.

3. What is the effect of the Emperor's yawn?
(a) Mozart is crushed emotionally and Salieri is delighted.
(b) Mozart is crushed emotionally and Salieri must show his sympathy.
(c) Encores will be banned in the future.
(d) The opera is hardly every performed.

4. How does Mozart view Salieri at this point?
(a) As a kind but impatient man.
(b) As a kind and good man.
(c) As an inspiring musician who is good and kind.
(d) As a fine musician.

5. What is Salieri determined now to do?
(a) To block God in one of his purest manifestations--Mozart.
(b) To block Mozart, thus serve God more fully.
(c) To block God by writing better music than Mozart can.
(d) To serve God all his days.

6. What makes Von Strack very cross?
(a) That Salieri is after his position.
(b) That Salieri and Orsini-Rosenberg speak before him in Italian.
(c) That Mozart's opera is already in rehearsal.
(d) That Mozart has finished the opera very quickly.

7. Music from which of Mozart's operas is played as Salieri muses during the transition between scenes?
(a) The Magic Flute.
(b) Florestan.
(c) Idomeneo.
(d) Cosi Fan Tutte.

8. What does Salieri do when he looks over the manuscript for the Requiem Mass?
(a) He pours ink all over it.
(b) He puts it in the bin.
(c) He tears it up.
(d) He burns it.

9. What is it that Mozart intends to adapt and include in his vaudeville opera?
(a) Secrets of Dionysus
(b) Obscure Catholic rituals.
(c) A Requiem Mass.
(d) Secret Masonic rituals.

10. What event has taken place in the Mozart household?
(a) A baby son has been born.
(b) A baby daughter has been born.
(c) Their servant has had a baby boy.
(d) Leopold Mozart has come to live with Wolfgang and Constanze.

11. What is the problem concerning The Marriage of Figaro?
(a) There is a problem concerning its language.
(b) Its theme is considered too serious.
(c) There is a problem finding suitable singers.
(d) Its theme is considered scandalous, subversive.

12. Which character has been deeply upset by Mozart's desperate behavior?
(a) Van Swieten.
(b) The Emperor Joseph II.
(c) Salieri.
(d) The Baroness.

13. Who pays for Mozart's funeral?
(a) Frau Weber.
(b) The Emperor.
(c) Baron Van Swieten.
(d) Count Orsini-Rosenberg

14. To which character does Salieri give the name La Statua?
(a) Princess Elizabeth.
(b) Baroness Waldstadten.
(c) Constanze Mozart.
(d) Teresa Salieri

15. What other virtue does Salieri relinquish?
(a) Social virtue: he resigns from all his committees.
(b) The virtue of love: he now hates everyone and intends to use them.
(c) The virtue of kindness: he is excessively mean to people.
(d) The virtue of abstinence: he eats and drinks lavishly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rosenberg sum up the effect of 'Non piu andrai'?

2. In conversation with Salieri, what attitude to his father does Mozart display?

3. What strange insight does Mozart seem to have regarding the Figaro problems?

4. How does Mozart receive a little help?

5. Who is the Guilty Libertine Salieri refers to?

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