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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What works has Mozart written during the same time?
(a) Keyboard concerti and the string quartets.
(b) Music for the popular theatre.
(c) Only two violin concerti.
(d) The opera Guilio Cesere.

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

5. How does Salieri dress in order to frighten Mozart?
(a) In a part-colored clown suit.
(b) In a gray cloak and mask.
(c) In a black cloak and gray mask.
(d) As a Janus figure in a green cloak.

6. What is the final blow for Mozart?
(a) His unmasking of Salieri and recognition of his villainous betrayal.
(b) His unmasking of Salieri and his despair over the damaged manuscript.
(c) The unmasking of Salieri and his despair over money.
(d) A letter from Constanze saying she will never return.

7. Which composer wrote the opera Semiramide performed in Munich?
(a) Delibes.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Salieri.
(d) Froissart.

8. What troubles does Mozart tell Salieri he has?
(a) Money woes and family illnesses.
(b) Worries concerning Constanze's pregnancy.
(c) Money woes and memories of his late father.
(d) Physical pains and bad dreams.

9. What did Mozart ask his father to do?
(a) Provide him with an endowment for his son.
(b) Mind his son while Constanze had a second baby.
(c) Mind his son while he was away in England.
(d) Provide him with an income.

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

11. What does Salieri notice about Mozart during the applause for the opera?
(a) His shabby clothes.
(b) His frailty and mortality.
(c) That he is disappointed in the staging.
(d) His drunken state.

12. Why do Constanze and Wolfgang stop their private game?
(a) Constanze goes into labor.
(b) They are tired and cold.
(c) They hear Salieri coming.
(d) Constanze faints.

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

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

15. What does Salieri find a compensation for ghastly encounters at the Baroness's?
(a) Watching Mozart suffer.
(b) Eating eclairs in secret.
(c) His favorite crema al mascarpone.
(d) The creative ideas that follow.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which character does Salieri give the name La Statua?

2. What is frightening Constanze?

3. How does Salieri now plan to destroy Mozart?

4. How has Katharina Cavalieri changed since she was last seen?

5. What does Mozart disclose to Salieri at the beginning of the next scene?

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