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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scenes XI - XII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sarti tell Virginia to go to the University to see an astronomer?
(a) To prove her father's teachings true.
(b) To cast her horoscope.
(c) To prove her father's teachings false.
(d) To seek a better husband.

2. What does Federzoni think has begun, "the hour of its birth," when the bell does not ring at the time the inquisitors thought it would?
(a) The age of science.
(b) The age of reason.
(c) The age of open-minds.
(d) The age of Galileo.

3. At the ball, what mask does Cardinal Bellarmin wear? (Scene VI)
(a) That of a wolf.
(b) That of a clown.
(c) That of a lamb.
(d) That of an eagle.

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

5. Whose palace is the beginning of Scene IX set at?
(a) Bellarmin's.
(b) Ludovico's.
(c) Andrea's.
(d) Medici's.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the inquisition put the Copernican teachings on the index?

2. Why does Andrea leave the room when Galileo was asking the men from the courts to look through the telescope?

3. What does Galileo say he bought instead of paying the milkman?

4. What, according to Andrea, do the people of Paris and Prague believe sunspots were?

5. What happens to Signor Giordano Bruno "because he was not a Venetian and also had no appointment here"?

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