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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 does Salieri find distasteful about the audience?
(a) That they dress badly and applaud in the wrong places.
(b) That they smell of sweat and sausage.
(c) That they are unwashed and smell of garlic.
(d) That they smell of sweat and coal dust.

2. How does Mozart view Salieri at this point?
(a) As an inspiring musician who is good and kind.
(b) As a kind but impatient man.
(c) As a fine musician.
(d) As a kind and good man.

3. In conversation with Salieri, what attitude to his father does Mozart display?
(a) That he is uncaring and hopes he will be left money.
(b) That he is a loving and devoted son.
(c) That he is jealous.
(d) That he is hostile.

4. What is Salieri determined now to do?
(a) To block Mozart, thus serve God more fully.
(b) To block God by writing better music than Mozart can.
(c) To block God in one of his purest manifestations--Mozart.
(d) To serve God all his days.

5. Why does Mozart dislike operas about lofty individuals and ancient heroes?
(a) He believes opera should be about real people.
(b) He believes they are too hard for singers to master.
(c) He believes this will make the art form decline.
(d) He thinks all opera should be funny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Von Strack very cross?

2. Why do Constanze and Wolfgang stop their private game?

3. What does Salieri know that the Venticelli do not?

4. What is the tone of Salieri's comment that 'Our religion' is largely based on waxworks?

5. How has Katharina Cavalieri changed since she was last seen?

Short Essay Questions

1. In addition to his personal battle with Mozart, how is the deterioration of Salieri's relationship with God demonstrated in this part of the play?

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

3. What is the significance of 'the figure in gray' that haunts Mozart's dreams?

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

5. In what way is the dying Mozart presented to us as a Christ-like martyr?

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

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

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

9. What information does the Venticelli convey to Salieri?

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

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