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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In conversation with Salieri, what attitude to his father does Mozart display?

2. How does Salieri refer to Mozart?

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

4. With news of his father's death, what aspects of himself does Mozart now reveal?

5. What promise to Mozart does Salieri fail to honor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What information does the Venticelli convey to Salieri?

6. What is Salieri's fate?

7. Comment on the philosophical contrast between Mozart and Van Swieten and Von Strack.

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

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

10. In what way is Mozart 'resurrected'?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways do you think the problem of 'appearances versus reality' is crucial to the play Amadeus?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of the minor--though crucial--characters in Amadeus and discuss their function in the play as a whole. (Exclude the Venticelli from this discussion.)

Essay Topic 3

Examine the character of Salieri and compare and contrast him with Mozart. You might want to consider the morals and motivation of each man.

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