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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scenes VII - VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Andrea, do the people of Paris and Prague believe sunspots were?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Vapors from the sun.
(c) Surface winds.
(d) Swarms of stars.

2. What is the only thing that the people from the "Little Monk's" village knew about?
(a) Bread.
(b) Wine.
(c) Cheese.
(d) Olives.

3. What prediction does Galileo make to Andrea about astronomy?
(a) That "astronomy will be talked about in the market-places."
(b) That "astronomy will never falter him."
(c) That "astronomy will be honored by Kings and Queens."
(d) That "astronomy will be challenged again and again."

4. At the end of Scene Seven, the "Little Monk" told Galileo that he cannot understand what?
(a) A word.
(b) A drawing.
(c) A sentence.
(d) A model.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Galileo tell the Curator would "save millions of scudi in navigation"?

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

3. Where does Scene VII open?

4. Who does the "Very Old Cardinal" claim was the "crown of creation"?

5. What does the stone at the center of the Ptolemaic system model represent?

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