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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word describes Salieri's success and what he has bought with it?
(a) 'Incomprenensible' to apply to his success and his wife's taste in furniture.
(b) The adjective 'golden'--for opinions and the furniture that reflects his success.
(c) 'Deliberate' for the way he has made things happen and the way he has decorated his house.
(d) The word 'lavish' to connect praise and furnishings.

2. What is Mozart's response to Constanze's dancing?
(a) He picks her up and puts her to bed.
(b) He grabs her and starts kissing her.
(c) He tells her to sit down and shut up.
(d) He chases her around the room.

3. In conversation with Salieri, what attitude to his father does Mozart display?
(a) That he is hostile.
(b) That he is a loving and devoted son.
(c) That he is jealous.
(d) That he is uncaring and hopes he will be left money.

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

5. About whom does the Emperor make the comment: 'I daresay he can't do much harm'?
(a) Herr Sommer.
(b) Count Orsini-Rosenberg.
(c) Count Von Strack.
(d) The First Venticello.

6. How does Rosenberg sum up the effect of 'Non piu andrai'?
(a) He says it is showy.
(b) He says it is too vernacular.
(c) He says it is vulgar.
(d) He says it it too intense.

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

8. How has Katharina Cavalieri changed since she was last seen?
(a) She is better dressed.
(b) She now has many wrinkles.
(c) She is thin and has dyed her hair.
(d) She is sluttish and over-ornamented.

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

10. Who is Schikaneder?
(a) An out-of-work actor.
(b) An out-of-work opera singer.
(c) An actor who owns a small theater in the suburbs.
(d) A good friend of the Emperor's and a Lodge member.

11. How has Salieri's career progressed?
(a) He writes smash hit operas and becomes exceedingly rich and famous.
(b) He works hard and has some success.
(c) He is successful, seen as a superior composer to Mozart.
(d) He works hard, writes one hit, then loses favor to Mozart.

12. What explanation does Salieri give the Emporer for not choosing Mozart as the Princess Elizabeth's music tutor?
(a) He tells the Emperor Mozart is too busy.
(b) He informs the Emperor that Mozart cannot be trusted around young women.
(c) He tells the Emperor Mozart's fees are too high.
(d) He tells the Emperor Mozart might influence the Princess politically.

13. What does Salieri know that the Venticelli do not?
(a) Mozart is writing long letters to Constanze.
(b) Mozart is writing secretly to Schikaneder.
(c) Mozart is writing his clarinet concerto.
(d) Mozart is writing his Requiem Mass.

14. Who is the Guilty Libertine Salieri refers to?
(a) Antonio Salieri himself.
(b) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
(c) Leopold Mozart.
(d) Don Giovanni.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pays for Mozart's funeral?

2. What did Mozart ask his father to do?

3. What does Salieri recognize in Figaro's song 'Non piu andrai'?

4. 'It celebrates . . . the goddess in Woman and not the laundress' is a reference to what>

5. How does Salieri dress in order to frighten Mozart?

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