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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new work is Mozart considering?
(a) A Vaudeville for ordinary German people.
(b) A grand opera for ordinary German people.
(c) A Requiem Mass for Schikaneder.
(d) A new comic opera for the Emperor.

2. How is the Emperor likely to foil Salieri's plans?
(a) By sending Salieri away to Italy.
(b) By offering Mozart an apartment at the palace.
(c) By offering Mozart a court position.
(d) By offering to pay Mozart's rent.

3. What wish of Salieri's is granted at this point?
(a) Mozart falls desperately ill.
(b) He is given a Papal kinighthood.
(c) He is appointed Kappellmeister on Rosenberg's death.
(d) He is appointed Kappellmeister on Bonno's death.

4. Who writes an opera that is the talk of the city of Vienna, according to the Venticelli?
(a) Richard Strauss.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Rossini.
(d) Salieri.

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

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

7. What is the effect of the dancers moving in total silence?
(a) Tastefulness.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Tense drama.
(d) Absurdity.

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

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

10. What salary does Salieri recommend Mozart be paid?
(a) Two hundred florins a month.
(b) Two thousand florins a year.
(c) Two hundred florins a year.
(d) Two hundred florins a week.

11. In the staging of The Magic Flute described by Salieri, what does the sun represent?
(a) A cleansing fire, but one bringing forgiveness.
(b) The Apprentice's Pillar.
(c) A symbol of life and love.
(d) A god determined to judge.

12. For what reason does Mozart reject the idea of giving more concerts?
(a) He says he has lost his gifts as a virtuoso.
(b) He says he is no longer fashionable.
(c) He says he can't afford to rent a hall.
(d) He says he has arthritic pain in his fingers.

13. How had Mozart disobeyed his father?
(a) By working for the Emperor.
(b) By composing The Abduction from the Seraglio.
(c) By leaving Salzburg.
(d) By marrying against his advice.

14. What does Constanze's return to Salieri show us?
(a) That she is prepared to make a great sacrifice for the husband she loves.
(b) That she is a sex addict.
(c) That she is a loose and dishonorable woman.
(d) That Salieri is compellingly attractive to women.

15. What does Mozart disclose to Salieri at the beginning of the next scene?
(a) That he is doing badly--no money and no prospect of earning any.
(b) That he has a new idea for an operatic piece.
(c) That he has been commissioned to write a Mass.
(d) That he is ill and worried about money.

Short Answer Questions

1. About whom does the Emperor make the comment: 'I daresay he can't do much harm'?

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

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

4. What does Constanze suggest might cure her husband's bad dreams?

5. What does Salieri notice about Mozart during the applause for the opera?

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