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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scenes XIII - XIV.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Virginia say she will be married?
(a) Rome.
(b) Holland.
(c) Prague.
(d) Florence.

4. At the border check, what is the name of the woman that the boys' song is about?
(a) Mary.
(b) Sonya.
(c) Hope.
(d) Sandy.

5. How much is the private tuition that Galileo initially was going to charge Ludovico?
(a) Ten scudi a month.
(b) Fifty scudi a month.
(c) Five scudi a month.
(d) Fifteen scudi a month.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sagredo asks Galileo about where God was, what is Galileo's answer?

2. Where did Scene XI take place?

3. What bell rings as Virginia entered her father's room? (Scene III)

4. What does Signor Gaffone give to Virginia, "in mint condition," to give to her father?

5. Where did Ludovico Marsili's letter say he has studied?

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