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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Six, From Arcetri.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Galileo's host?
(a) Nicolini.
(b) Barberini.
(c) Bertolli.
(d) Gambini.

2. What was the name of the doctor that cared for Maria Celeste?
(a) Barberini.
(b) Medici.
(c) Niccolini.
(d) Ronconi.

3. Galileo suffered from many ailments involving his eyes. Which of the following was not one of those ailments?
(a) Pink Eye.
(b) Cataracts.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Glaucoma.

4. Maria Celeste recalls being in the garden with her father learning about which of the following?
(a) Gravity.
(b) Telescope.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Tides.

5. What is the name of the monastery that could have been used to contain Galileo after he left SIena?
(a) Sacred Heart.
(b) Certosa.
(c) Dominica.
(d) San Matteo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What continued to plague Galileo up until the time he died?

2. What was the name of Galileo's brother?

3. By this time Mrs. Niccolini had earned the title of __________.

4. Maria Celeste managed to keep informed of Galileo's trials with the help of which family member's brother?

5. If Galileo was able to prove that science had a legitimate place in the world, the Pope would no longer appear to be:

(see the answer key)

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