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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scenes V - VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Andrea leave the room when Galileo was asking the men from the courts to look through the telescope?
(a) Andrea was embarassed for fighting with Cosimo.
(b) Andrea's nose started bleeding.
(c) Andrea needed to get water for the men.
(d) Andrea said the men were stupid.

2. What do Cosimo and Andrea break during their fighting on the floor?
(a) The telescope.
(b) A chair.
(c) The Ptolemaic model.
(d) A star model.

3. What does the First Scholar see that Galileo dropped?
(a) A map.
(b) A crystal.
(c) A stone.
(d) A coin.

4. Where does Galileo tell Sagredo that the light from the moon comes from?
(a) The sun.
(b) Stars.
(c) The moon.
(d) Earth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Galileo tell Andrea to put on the table? (Scene I)

2. According to Galileo, if one believes in humanity, they believe in what?

3. While talking to Andrea about the ships that had found new continents, what does Galileo call the "dreaded ocean"?

4. What is the date of the opening of Scene III?

5. Where does Galileo place the Ptolemaic system for Andrea to find?

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