2. How does Mozart react to news of his salary?
(a) With delight and gratitude.
(b) With disappointment and anger.
(c) With skepticism.
(d) With delight.

3. In what way does Salieri demonstrate his abandonment of his vow of chastity?
(a) He takes Constanze Mozart as his mistress.
(b) He seduces a nun.
(c) He begins an affair with Katharina Cavalieri.
(d) He starts seeing prostitutes.

4. What is the tone of Salieri's comment that 'Our religion' is largely based on waxworks?
(a) Sweet.
(b) Soppy.
(c) Sarcastic.
(d) Serious.

5. How does Baron Van Swieten enter the Theater by the Weiden?
(a) Quickly.
(b) In disguise.
(c) With some ceremony.
(d) Unobserved,

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

7. What does Salieri recognize in Figaro's song 'Non piu andrai'?
(a) Mozart's variations on 'Twinkle, Little Star'.
(b) Salieri's own little 'March of Welcome'.
(c) A phrase from the Dies Irae.
(d) Salieri's own overture to Semiramide.

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

9. What does Constanze do with the last of their money?
(a) She travels to Prague to meet a lover.
(b) She goes to the spa in Baden, Germany.
(c) She gives it to her mother.
(d) She goes to Bonn in Germany.

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

11. Who does Constanze blame for the Mozarts' present plight?
(a) Her unborn baby.
(b) Her father-in-law, Leopold.
(c) Her husband, Wolfgang.
(d) Salieri.

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

13. 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.

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

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