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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scenes XIII - XIV.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Galileo tell the Curator would "save millions of scudi in navigation"?
(a) New ships.
(b) New ocean maps.
(c) New star charts.
(d) The telescope.

3. Where did Scene XI take place?
(a) In the Hall of Trials in Venice.
(b) In the Court of Inquisition in Florence.
(c) In the Palace of the Florentine Ambassador in Rome.
(d) An apartment in the Vatican.

4. Who does Andrea tell his mother had "worked out" that the Earth went around the sun?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Kippernicus.

5. What does the Inquisitor want to keep while "damning" Galileo's writings?
(a) The ocean charts.
(b) The scientific mind.
(c) Star charts.
(d) The telescope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the boy that did not attend school and "hasn't a proper pair of breeches"?

2. Why does Vanni say Galileo would be better off in Venice?

3. What bell rings as Virginia entered her father's room? (Scene III)

4. What time do the people of the inquisition believe that Galileo would recant?

5. What is the only thing that the people from the "Little Monk's" village knew about?

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