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

3. According to the Venticelli, how many pupils does Mozart have?
(a) No more than sixteen.
(b) Six at the most.
(c) Seven at the most.
(d) Four at the most.

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

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

6. What is the meaning of the gestures Salieri makes outside Mozart's window?
(a) It is a countdown to death.
(b) It indicates the Grim Reaper.
(c) It is a symbol of the Egyptian god Osiris.
(d) It is an obscure Masonic ritual.

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

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

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

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

11. What is Mozart's response when the figure (Salieri) beckons under his window?
(a) He calls down a quotation from Don Giovanni--where the Don invites the Statue to dinner.
(b) He laughs crazily and almost falls from the window.
(c) He sings part of The Catalogue Song from Don Giovanni.
(d) He hums Eine Kleine Nachtsmusik and beckons the figure in return.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What strange insight does Mozart seem to have regarding the Figaro problems?

3. How did Leopold Mozart respond to his son's request?

4. What is the problem concerning The Marriage of Figaro?

5. What has happened to Leopold Mozart's letters?

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