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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Katharina Cavalieri changed since she was last seen?
(a) She is thin and has dyed her hair.
(b) She is sluttish and over-ornamented.
(c) She is better dressed.
(d) She now has many wrinkles.

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

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

4. What does Constanze suggest might cure her husband's bad dreams?
(a) Laudanum.
(b) Work.
(c) A visit to the spa.
(d) A better house.

5. How does Mozart view Salieri at this point?
(a) As a fine musician.
(b) As a kind and good man.
(c) As a kind but impatient man.
(d) As an inspiring musician who is good and kind.

6. What is Salieri's response to The Magic Flute?
(a) He is outraged at the use of Masonic ritual.
(b) He doesn't understand it.
(c) He despises it for its jokes.
(d) He sees it as full of cleansing and peace.

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

8. What is the problem concerning The Marriage of Figaro?
(a) There is a problem concerning its language.
(b) There is a problem finding suitable singers.
(c) Its theme is considered too serious.
(d) Its theme is considered scandalous, subversive.

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

10. When did Mozart first travel to London?
(a) Mozart has never been to London.
(b) When he was twenty.
(c) When he was a child.
(d) The previous year, for a concert tour.

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

12. 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) Salieri's own overture to Semiramide.
(d) A phrase from the Dies Irae.

13. About whom does the Emperor make the comment: 'I daresay he can't do much harm'?
(a) The First Venticello.
(b) Count Von Strack.
(c) Count Orsini-Rosenberg.
(d) Herr Sommer.

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

15. How does Mozart describe opera's importance?
(a) He says it will be heard by God.
(b) He says it is safer than any play.
(c) He says it will be remembered forever.
(d) He says it is realer than any play.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which composer wrote the opera Semiramide performed in Munich?

2. In what way does Salieri demonstrate his abandonment of his vow of chastity?

3. What is the effect of the dancers moving in total silence?

4. According to the Venticelli, how many pupils does Mozart have?

5. Who is Schikaneder?

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