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

2. In what way does Salieri demonstrate his abandonment of his vow of chastity?
(a) He starts seeing prostitutes.
(b) He seduces a nun.
(c) He begins an affair with Katharina Cavalieri.
(d) He takes Constanze Mozart as his mistress.

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

4. With news of his father's death, what aspects of himself does Mozart now reveal?
(a) His childishness and dependence.
(b) His morbid tendencies and his hunger for money.
(c) His towering ego and indifference.
(d) His vulverability and shame.

5. What has happened to Leopold Mozart's letters?
(a) Constanze has sold them.
(b) Constanze has burned them.
(c) Wolfgang has sold them to a library.
(d) Wolfgang has donated them to a library.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salieri notice about Mozart during the applause for the opera?

2. What does Van Swieten call a 'stupid, hopeless task?'

3. What explanation does Salieri give the Emporer for not choosing Mozart as the Princess Elizabeth's music tutor?

4. What is Mozart's response when the figure (Salieri) beckons under his window?

5. How does Mozart react to news of his salary?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens in this scene to essentially perform the coup-de-grace for Mozart?

3. How does Salieri change focus in his struggle against God and His instrument, Mozart?

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

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

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

9. Comment on Salieri's actions as Mozart's illness and obsession overtake him.

10. How does the death of Kapellmeister Bonno affect Salieri?

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