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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 is the monk play-acting? (in the opening of Scene V.)
(a) The he was Galileo.
(b) The he was drunk.
(c) That the Earth was spinning too fast.
(d) The he was looking at the sun through the telescope.

2. What happens to Virginia at the end of Scene VIII?
(a) She hit her father.
(b) She ran after Ludovico.
(c) She fell down the stairs.
(d) She faints.

3. According to Bellarmin, whose teachings have been found, by the Holy Office, to be "futile, foolish and heretical"?
(a) Socrates' teachings.
(b) Galileo's teachings.
(c) Copernicus' teachings.
(d) Plato's teachings.

4. Which Dane determines the track of a comet?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Tycho Brahe.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Cosimo Medici.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had the "Little Monk" grown up?

2. At the ball, what mask does Barberini wear? (Scene VI)

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

4. What does Galileo use to make the iron needle float on the surface of water without sinking?

5. Who does the Scholar claim is drunk again-while play-acting with the Monk?

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