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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four, In Care of the Tuscan Embassy, Villa Medici, Rome.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It was intended that the girl stay in the convent until her parents could find:
(a) A husband.
(b) An adoptive family.
(c) Money for college.
(d) A place to live.

2. What was the surname of Galileo's lover and mother to his children?
(a) Giabruzzi.
(b) Benedict.
(c) Medici.
(d) Gamba.

3. Which of the following was not one of the reasons given to the Pope by Niccolini?
(a) Illness.
(b) Acceptance of censure.
(c) Connection to the Medicis.
(d) Old age.

4. The author speaks at length of the war, which involved which country?
(a) Lichtenstein.
(b) England.
(c) Austria.
(d) Spain.

5. Although the Dialogue was never legally banned, its printing was ______.
(a) Postponed.
(b) Painstakingly slow.
(c) Constantly modified.
(d) Canceled.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Cardinal Barberini related to Pope Urban?

2. What is it called when one builds a model of a new product?

3. It is erroneously reported that Galileo was tried in which year?

4. Galileo was afraid to send books to Rome because they would be:

5. Galileo was eventually named head mathematician and philosopher to which of the following people?

(see the answer key)

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