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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scenes IX - X.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what city does Galileo teach mathematics in the opening of the play?
(a) Padua.
(b) Paris.
(c) Venice.
(d) Rome.

3. What does Sarti hand to Galileo while he was telling her about the new discoveries in science?
(a) A bill from the bookstore.
(b) A bill from the milkman.
(c) A letter of interest in Galileo's work.
(d) A letter of recommendation.

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

5. Where did Scene X open?
(a) The Florentine Court.
(b) An apartment in the Vatican.
(c) The court of the Holy Inquisition.
(d) Andrea's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose palace is the beginning of Scene IX set at?

2. What does the Pope tell the Inquisitor that he will not have destroyed?

3. To where does the "High Official" tell Galileo that he has to go to face the Holy Inquisition?

4. How old is Andrea in Scene I?

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

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