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

2. Why did Van Swieten attend the performance?
(a) The Emperor suggested it.
(b) He'd heard gossip about it at the Masonic Lodge.
(c) Out of simple suriosity.
(d) Salieri suggested it.

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

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

5. How does Rosenberg sum up the effect of 'Non piu andrai'?
(a) He says it is showy.
(b) He says it it too intense.
(c) He says it is vulgar.
(d) He says it is too vernacular.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the Venticelli, how many pupils does Mozart have?

4. What salary does Salieri recommend Mozart be paid?

5. How does Salieri refer to Mozart?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. What significant observations about art does Salieri make?

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

8. What is the significance of Salieri's words: " alone was empowered to recognize them for what they were'?

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

10. What is Salieri's fate?

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