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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Galileo tell Sagredo the spots on stars were?
(a) Craters.
(b) Fire.
(c) Wind.
(d) Mountains.

2. What happens to Signor Giordano Bruno "because he was not a Venetian and also had no appointment here"?
(a) He was imprisoned.
(b) He was banished from the city.
(c) He was burned at the stake.
(d) He was hung.

3. How old is Andrea in Scene I?
(a) 14 years old.
(b) 12 years old.
(c) 10 years old.
(d) 8 years old.

4. According to Galileo, who were the ones that were "no longer moved by reason"?
(a) "The skeptics."
(b) "The men who turned their backs on science."
(c) "The dead."
(d) "The disciples of religion."

5. What does Cosimo call Andrea as they fight over the models?
(a) "Beets."
(b) "Carrots."
(c) "Dog."
(d) "Rat."

6. Whom does the Inquisitor have taking a transcript of the conversation between Galileo and Cardinals Bellarmin and Barberini?
(a) Andrea.
(b) The lady in waiting.
(c) Virginia.
(d) The clerks playing chess.

7. How old is Galileo's daughter, Virginia, in Scene II?
(a) 11 years old.
(b) 15 years old.
(c) 12 years old.
(d) 17 years old.

8. How much is the private tuition that Galileo initially was going to charge Ludovico?
(a) Fifteen scudi a month.
(b) Fifty scudi a month.
(c) Five scudi a month.
(d) Ten scudi a month.

9. Where does Scene IV open?
(a) The marketplace.
(b) Galileo's home in Florence.
(c) The University in Florence.
(d) Virginia's home.

10. According to Bellarmin, whose teachings have been found, by the Holy Office, to be "futile, foolish and heretical"?
(a) Socrates' teachings.
(b) Galileo's teachings.
(c) Plato's teachings.
(d) Copernicus' teachings.

11. How many years did Sarti work for Monsignor Filippo before working for Galileo?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 7 years.

12. What is the monk play-acting? (in the opening of Scene V.)
(a) The he was drunk.
(b) The he was Galileo.
(c) The he was looking at the sun through the telescope.
(d) That the Earth was spinning too fast.

13. Where does Scene VI open?
(a) Ludovico's home.
(b) Cardinal Bellarmin's House in Rome.
(c) The Court of Florence.
(d) Galileo's home.

14. Who does the Chamberlain say is the name of the Astronomer-in-Chief at the Papal College in Rome?
(a) Father Micheal Measter.
(b) Father Christopher Clavius.
(c) Father Christophe Cleminez.
(d) Father Franz Wistne.

15. Where did Ludovico Marsili's letter say he has studied?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Paris.
(c) Prague.
(d) Holland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Andrea tell Galileo not to use because "You can prove anything with them"?

2. What epicyclical orbit does Galileo draw on the blackboard when describing his discovery to the Grand Duke of Tuscany?

3. Why does the Grand Duke of Tuscany come to Galileo's home?

4. What chess piece does Galileo say took to "moving all over the board"?

5. When Sagredo asks Galileo about where God was, what is Galileo's answer?

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