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Answers:

1.
The opening scene of Amadeus features:
Mozart’s death
Salieri’s suicide attempt
Mozart as a child playing for the Pope
Salieri’s confession
 
2.
The music that plays as Salieri is taken to the hospital is from which of his symphonies?
Symphony No. 25
Symphony No. 28
Symphony No. 29
Symphony No. 33
 
3.
Father Vogler, hospital chaplain, visits Salieri. After Vogler cannot identify any of Salieri’s tunes, Salieri plays the start of which movement of Eine kleine Nachtmusik?
Allegro
Romanze
Menuetto
Rondo
 
4.
Young Salieri prayed to God to make him a great composer. He offered all of the following except:
his industry
his fidelity
his humility
his chastity
 
5.
And what miracle does Salieri believe God provided?
his being sent to study in Vienna
a chance meeting with the greatest composter of the time, Christoph Gluck
the death of his father
a visit from an archbishop with a taste for young men
 
6.
Salieri becomes court composer to the Holy Roman Emperor Josef II, played by:
William Atherton
James Spader
Paul Reiser
Jeffrey Jones
 
7.
Salieri is shocked to discover the giggling dirty-minded creature he’s seen crawling on the floor was none other than Mozart. Mozart jokingly proposes marriage to Constanze by speaking in:
backwards talk
spoonerisms
rhyming slang
Pig Latin
 
8.
Emperor Joseph commissions Mozart to write an opera. Why is Mozart’s suggestion controversial?
it is sung in Turkish
it insults the Church
it is set in a harem
it encourages the masses to rise up against their monarch
 
9.
Mozart conducts his opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. What colour wig is he wearing?
yellow
orange
blue
pink
 
10.
What’s the Emperor’s complaint about the opera?
it is sung in German
the singer is too fat
everyone was singing at once, and he couldn’t follow
there are too many notes
 
11.
Who interrupts Mozart’s discussion with the Emperor about the opera?
his fiancée, Constanze
the opera director, Count Orsini-Rosenberg
the first Kapellmeister, Giuseppe Bonno
his landlady, Frau Weber
 
12.
Constanze comes to Salieri to seek his assistance for Mozart. What treat does he offer her?
Milady’s Treasures
Fig Candies
Nipples of Venus
Viennese Oysters
 
13.
“From now on, we are enemies you and I.” Who is Salieri talking to?
Mozart
the Emperor
Constanze
God
 
14.
Mozart’s father has come to stay. His entrance later inspires Mozart in which opera?
The Clemency of Titus
Don Giovanni
The Magic Flute
Zaide
 
15.
The Mozart family go out to a party. Mozart wears a hat shaped like the head of a:
dragon
faun
unicorn
lion
 
16.
Salieri hires Lorl to be Mozart’s maid. Which actress plays Lorl?
Sarah Jessica Parker
Kristin Davis
Cynthia Nixon
Kim Cattrall
 
17.
Mozart is writing another opera – this one is based on a play that has been banned by the Emperor. Name the opera
Cosi fan Tutte
The Marriage of Figaro
The Deluded Bridegroom
The Shepherd King
 
18.
Aside from plays about class oppression, what else has His Majesty expressly forbidden from opera?
dream sequences
ballet
circus acts
large women
 
19.
Unfortunately for Mozart, the Emperor yawns during the opera and the Marriage of Figaro is shelved after how many performances?
five
seven
nine
eleven
 
20.
We get to see Salieri conduct the closing scene of one of his utterly conventional operas. Which one?
Axur, King of Ormus
Trofonio’s Cave
Palmira, Queen of Persia
The School of Jealousy
 
21.
Salieri hatches a plot to gain victory over Mozart and God – by commissioning Mozart to write a piece of music. What piece does Mozart write?
Eine kleine Gigue
Missa solemnis
Requiem Mass in D minor
Te Deum
 
22.
Mozart’s friend Schikaneder asks him to write an opera for the common people. Which opera is the result?
The Magic Flute
Idomeneo
The Impresario
The Pretended Simpleton
 
23.
Schikaneder’s acting troupe includes a little person, played by:
Verne Troyer
Warwick Davis
Kenny Baker
Peter Dinklage
 
24.
The Queen of the Night’s second act aria in the Magic Flute is inspired by:
Constanze
Katerina
Lorl
Frau Weber
 
25.
Schikaneder’s costume in the Magic Flute is made entirely of:
fur
metallic scales
feathers
human hair
 
26.
Mozart collapses during the performance, and is taken home by Salieri. What movement of the Requiem Mass in D Minor does Salieri write down for Mozart?
Dies irae (Day of Wrath)
Tuba mirum (Wondrous sound)
Confutatis maledictis (While the wicked are confounded)
Lacrimosa dies illa (That day of tears and mourning)
 
27.
Mozart is buried in:
a mass grave
Prague cemetery
Salieri’s mausoleum
the Imperial Crypt
 
28.
God has had the last laugh on Salieri, keeping him alive for how many years of meaningless fame to end up alone in his room, watching himself become extinct?
18 years
28 years
32 years
39 years
 
29.
Fill in the blank: “I speak for all the _________ in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.”
inadequates
pedestrians
milquetoasts
mediocrities
 
30.
The last sound we hear before the credits roll is:
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21
Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor
Non Più Andrai from Le Nozze di Figaro
Mozart’s giggling laugh
 




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