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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Despite being unable to block the production, how does Salieri feel at the first performance of Figaro?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Strange and light-headed.
(c) Strangely excited.
(d) Strangely exhilerated.

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

3. Why did Van Swieten attend the performance?
(a) Out of simple suriosity.
(b) Salieri suggested it.
(c) The Emperor suggested it.
(d) He'd heard gossip about it at the Masonic Lodge.

4. Who does Mozart blame for his disappoint in the matter of Princess Elizabeth?
(a) His father.
(b) Himself.
(c) Salieri.
(d) Constanze.

5. What word describes Salieri's success and what he has bought with it?
(a) The word 'lavish' to connect praise and furnishings.
(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) 'Deliberate' for the way he has made things happen and the way he has decorated his house.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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 been commissioned to write a Mass.
(c) That he is ill and worried about money.
(d) That he has a new idea for an operatic piece.

12. What is frightening Constanze?
(a) Their poverty.
(b) Mozart and the story of his dream.
(c) The possibility of Mozart being expelled from the Masonic Lodge.
(d) Having a second baby.

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

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

15. Which character has been deeply upset by Mozart's desperate behavior?
(a) The Baroness.
(b) Van Swieten.
(c) Salieri.
(d) The Emperor Joseph II.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Baron Van Swieten enter the Theater by the Weiden?

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

3. What suggestion does Salieri make to Mozart?

4. For Mozart, what is the outcome of his work for Schikaneder?

5. Who pays for Mozart's funeral?

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