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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scenes IX - X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is it in the opening of the play?
(a) 1609.
(b) 1409.
(c) 1510.
(d) 1710.

2. When, according to Galileo, does he "get most inspiration"?
(a) When he looked at the stars.
(b) When he read.
(c) When he ate.
(d) When he thought about Virginia's dowry.

3. According to Galileo, what "grows feeble from being abused"?
(a) Plight.
(b) Power.
(c) Authority.
(d) Science.

4. What do the strips of paper on the Ptolemaic system model have written on them?
(a) Names of stars.
(b) Names of moons.
(c) Names of galaxies.
(d) Names of planets.

5. What does the Pope tell the Inquisitor that he will not have destroyed?
(a) Mathematical cables.
(b) Copernicus' writings.
(c) Aristotle's writings.
(d) Galileo's writings.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Scene IX, what awaits Galileo?

2. What does the First Scholar see that Galileo dropped?

3. Where does Scene V open?

4. What year is it at the opening of Scene IX?

5. What does Galileo call a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie?

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