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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which composer wrote the opera Semiramide performed in Munich?
(a) Salieri.
(b) Delibes.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Froissart.
2. What is the effect of the Emperor's yawn?
(a) The opera is hardly every performed.
(b) Encores will be banned in the future.
(c) Mozart is crushed emotionally and Salieri is delighted.
(d) Mozart is crushed emotionally and Salieri must show his sympathy.
3. What salary does Salieri recommend Mozart be paid?
(a) Two thousand florins a year.
(b) Two hundred florins a week.
(c) Two hundred florins a year.
(d) Two hundred florins a month.
4. Music from which of Mozart's operas is played as Salieri muses during the transition between scenes?
(a) Cosi Fan Tutte.
(b) Florestan.
(c) The Magic Flute.
(d) Idomeneo.
5. What does Constanze do with the last of their money?
(a) She goes to the spa in Baden, Germany.
(b) She gives it to her mother.
(c) She travels to Prague to meet a lover.
(d) She goes to Bonn in Germany.
Short Answer Questions
1. What suggestion does Salieri make to Mozart?
2. Which character has been deeply upset by Mozart's desperate behavior?
3. How does Salieri refer to Mozart?
4. What did Mozart ask his father to do?
5. What is Mozart's response to Constanze's dancing?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is implied by the Emperor's comment to Salieri regarding music and the Princess Elizabeth?
2. What happens to make The Marriage of Figaro a failure in its first year?
3. How does the death of Kapellmeister Bonno affect Salieri?
4. What is unusual about Mozart's vision of opera?
5. What significant observations about art does Salieri make?
6. What is the importance of the scene in which Salieri's home is contrasted with that of the Mozart family?
7. In what way does Salieri scheme to spoil the production of The Marriage of Figaro?
8. What is the significance of Salieri's words: " alone was empowered to recognize them for what they were'?
9. How does The Magic Flute precipitate a serious falling-out between Mozart and Van Swieten?
10. How does Salieri's power over Mozart intensify?
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