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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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. Why does Galileo tell Virginia that they move to Florence?
(a) To work for the University.
(b) To find her a husband.
(c) So he could be the Court Mathematician.
(d) So that he could sell his telescopes.

4. What do the strips of paper on the Ptolemaic system model have written on them?
(a) Names of planets.
(b) Names of moons.
(c) Names of galaxies.
(d) Names of stars.

5. When Sagredo asks Galileo about where God was, what is Galileo's answer?
(a) "On the moon."
(b) "In us, or nowhere."
(c) "On earth, buried deeply as to not be found."
(d) "On the brightest star."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the First Scholar see that Galileo dropped?

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

3. What is the monk play-acting? (in the opening of Scene V.)

4. Who is Virginia speaking with at the end of Scene VI?

5. In what city does Galileo teach mathematics in the opening of the play?

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