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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. What event has taken place in the Mozart household?
(a) Their servant has had a baby boy.
(b) Leopold Mozart has come to live with Wolfgang and Constanze.
(c) A baby son has been born.
(d) A baby daughter has been born.

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

3. What does Salieri do when he looks over the manuscript for the Requiem Mass?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He puts it in the bin.
(c) He tears it up.
(d) He pours ink all over it.

4. What does Constanze do with the last of their money?
(a) She travels to Prague to meet a lover.
(b) She gives it to her mother.
(c) She goes to Bonn in Germany.
(d) She goes to the spa in Baden, Germany.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 'It celebrates . . . the goddess in Woman and not the laundress' is a reference to what>

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

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

4. What troubles does Mozart tell Salieri he has?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Salieri scheme to spoil the production of The Marriage of Figaro?

2. What disturbing aspect of 'appearances versus reality' does Salieri allude to in his opening speech in Act 2 of Amadeus?

3. What is unusual about Mozart's vision of opera?

4. What does Constanze's return to Salieri's apartment reveal about her?

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

6. Comment on the irony of Salieri's situation at the end of this section of the play.

7. In what way is Mozart 'resurrected'?

8. How does Salieri's power over Mozart intensify?

9. What is Salieri's fate?

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

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