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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While waiting to hear news of the inquisition, what are the "Little Monk" and Federzoni doing?
(a) Watching ice float.
(b) Playing chess.
(c) Sinking iron needles in water.
(d) Making models of the solar system.

2. Where does Galileo place the Ptolemaic system for Andrea to find?
(a) In the broom closet.
(b) In the teapot.
(c) Behind the star charts.
(d) Under the table.

3. Who is Virginia's Father Confessor?
(a) Father Steine from Saint Mercy.
(b) Father Michael from Saint Cornela.
(c) Father Franz from Notre Dame.
(d) Father Christophorus from Saint Ursula.

4. How many globes surround the center stone?
(a) 10 globes.
(b) 8 globes.
(c) 12 globes.
(d) 9 globes.

5. What does Galileo ask the men to trust when looking through the telescope at the stars?
(a) Science.
(b) Their minds.
(c) Their hearts.
(d) Their eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Scene VII open?

2. What time do the people of the inquisition believe that Galileo would recant?

3. According to the person from the Grand Duke's Palace, what bell will ring when Galileo recants his teachings?

4. Whom does the Inquisitor have taking a transcript of the conversation between Galileo and Cardinals Bellarmin and Barberini?

5. 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?

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