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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. What salary does Salieri recommend Mozart be paid?

2. What works has Mozart written during the same time?

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

4. Why does Mozart dislike operas about lofty individuals and ancient heroes?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. How does The Magic Flute precipitate a serious falling-out between Mozart and Van Swieten?

5. In what way does Salieri use the information from the Venticelli to take further action against Mozart?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways is Amadeus a struggle between the forces of innovation and the power of convention? Make close reference to the text.

Essay Topic 2

"Mozart embraces life honestly, lives it fully and renders its complexity in his music. Salieri buries his passions in conventional living and is only capable of conventional art '. Discuss this statement with close reference to the text.

Essay Topic 3

'Salieri is almost an archetypal hypocrite.' What is a hypocrite and does Salieri qualify for this label? Who else in Amadeus can be described as a Hypocrite? How does the behavior of such individuals affect others? Respond with close reference to the play.

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