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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Salieri find distasteful about the audience?
(a) That they are unwashed and smell of garlic.
(b) That they dress badly and applaud in the wrong places.
(c) That they smell of sweat and coal dust.
(d) That they smell of sweat and sausage.

2. How does Mozart receive a little help?
(a) Van Swieten pays him a small fee to arrange music by Bach.
(b) Van Swieten gives him a small fee to arrange music by Gluck.
(c) The Emperor commisions a cantata.
(d) Salieri pays him a fee to arrange music by Bach.

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

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

5. What suggestion does Salieri make to Mozart?
(a) That it should be about Egyptians.
(b) That he write a sequel to Seraglio.
(c) That it should be about brotherly love.
(d) That he put the Masons into it.

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

7. What promise to Mozart does Salieri fail to honor?
(a) That he will explain the mistake to Orsini-Rosenberg.
(b) That he will speak to the Emperor about attending a rehearsal.
(c) That he will speak to the Emperor about the tutoring work with Princess Elizabeth.
(d) That he will help Mozart by re-writing the act.

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

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

10. What does Van Swieten call a 'stupid, hopeless task?'
(a) Mending Mozart's vulgarity.
(b) Ensuring that Mozart finish commissioned work.
(c) Teaching Mozart table manners.
(d) Helping Mozart succeed.

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

12. Of what does Van Swieten accuse Mozart?
(a) Of betraying his wife with a vulgar woman.
(b) Of betraying Austria through Masonic rituals.
(c) Of betraying Salieri by sleeping with his mistress.
(d) Of betraying the Masonic Lodge and vulgarizing its rituals.

13. Why does Mozart dislike operas about lofty individuals and ancient heroes?
(a) He believes this will make the art form decline.
(b) He believes opera should be about real people.
(c) He believes they are too hard for singers to master.
(d) He thinks all opera should be funny.

14. What strange insight does Mozart seem to have regarding the Figaro problems?
(a) That Orsini-Rosenberg is behind it all.
(b) That God is conspiring against him.
(c) That God wants him to be humbled.
(d) That Salieri is behind it all.

15. Why are the Mozarts cold?
(a) The building has no heating.
(b) They can't afford wood for a fire.
(c) The central heating boiler has failed.
(d) They can't afford to connect the heating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is frightening Constanze?

2. Why does Orsini-Rosenberg object to The Marriage of Figaro?

3. Who is Schikaneder?

4. What is Salieri's response to The Magic Flute?

5. When did Mozart first travel to London?

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