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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 type of language does the Inquisitor say that Galileo writes in?
(a) "The language of mathematicians."
(b) "The language of scholars."
(c) "The language of the Church, Ecclesiastical Latin."
(d) "The language of the fishwives and wool merchants."

2. While at the ball, what chapter of the Bible do both Cardinal Bellarmin and Cardinal Barberini quote?
(a) Exodus.
(b) Genesis.
(c) Proverbs.
(d) Kings.

3. According to Bellarmin, whose teachings have been found, by the Holy Office, to be "futile, foolish and heretical"?
(a) Plato's teachings.
(b) Copernicus' teachings.
(c) Socrates' teachings.
(d) Galileo's teachings.

4. Where does Scene VI open?
(a) Cardinal Bellarmin's House in Rome.
(b) The Court of Florence.
(c) Galileo's home.
(d) Ludovico's home.

5. In Scene XI, how many days does the "Little Monk" say that Galileo had been sitting in prison?
(a) 30 days.
(b) 23 days.
(c) 47 days.
(d) 13 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Virginia say 'did not' send the present to Galileo?

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

3. At the ball, what mask does Cardinal Bellarmin wear? (Scene VI)

4. Who is Virginia's Father Confessor?

5. According to Bellarmin, whose responsibility is it to interpret the Bible?

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