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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. How had Mozart disobeyed his father?
(a) By working for the Emperor.
(b) By composing The Abduction from the Seraglio.
(c) By leaving Salzburg.
(d) By marrying against his advice.

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

3. Who pays for Mozart's funeral?
(a) Count Orsini-Rosenberg
(b) Baron Van Swieten.
(c) Frau Weber.
(d) The Emperor.

4. What does Mozart disclose to Salieri at the beginning of the next scene?
(a) That he has been commissioned to write a Mass.
(b) That he is doing badly--no money and no prospect of earning any.
(c) That he is ill and worried about money.
(d) That he has a new idea for an operatic piece.

5. What makes Von Strack very cross?
(a) That Salieri is after his position.
(b) That Salieri and Orsini-Rosenberg speak before him in Italian.
(c) That Mozart has finished the opera very quickly.
(d) That Mozart's opera is already in rehearsal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Mozart intends to adapt and include in his vaudeville opera?

2. When Salieri speaks of 'the Creature,' to whom is he referring?

3. How does Salieri dress in order to frighten Mozart?

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

5. What does Constanze's return to Salieri show us?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mozart tell Salieri at the end of this section of the play?

2. What significant observations about art does Salieri make?

3. How does The Magic Flute precipitate a serious falling-out between Mozart and Van Swieten?

4. What are the indications of decline that Salieri observes when he meets Wolfgang and Constanze in the Prater?

5. How is the Emperor a danger to Salieri's plan to destroy Mozart?

6. In what way is Mozart's tendency to plain speaking working against him, according to the Venticelli?

7. What is implied by the Emperor's comment to Salieri regarding music and the Princess Elizabeth?

8. In what way is his son's description of Leopold Mozart ironic?

9. What is the importance of the scene in which Salieri's home is contrasted with that of the Mozart family?

10. What happens to make The Marriage of Figaro a failure in its first year?

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