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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is it in the opening of the play?
(a) 1609.
(b) 1710.
(c) 1510.
(d) 1409.

2. What sickness was the "Old Gentlemen" discussing as they climbed the stairs to see the telescope?
(a) Larsen Sydnrome.
(b) The plague.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Homocystinuria.

3. What does Cosimo call Andrea as they fight over the models?
(a) "Beets."
(b) "Carrots."
(c) "Rat."
(d) "Dog."

4. How many years did Sarti work for Monsignor Filippo before working for Galileo?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 7 years.

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

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

7. Who does the "Very Old Cardinal" claim was the "crown of creation"?
(a) The sun.
(b) Man.
(c) The church.
(d) God.

8. Who does Andrea tell his mother had "worked out" that the Earth went around the sun?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Kippernicus.

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

10. What do the Duke and his Court attend after leaving Galileo's home?
(a) A trial.
(b) A knighting.
(c) The Court Ball.
(d) An inquisition.

11. On what date did the inquisition put the Copernican teachings on the index?
(a) December 25, 1616.
(b) March 15, 1616.
(c) October 28, 1629.
(d) April 1, 1618.

12. In the Ptolemaic system model, what does Galileo claim moved?
(a) Only the sun.
(b) Only the stars.
(c) Everything.
(d) Only the planets.

13. What does the stone at the center of the Ptolemaic system model represent?
(a) Earth.
(b) The moon.
(c) The sun.
(d) Neptune.

14. What does Galileo tell Sagredo the spots on stars were?
(a) Craters.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Fire.
(d) Wind.

15. What does Galileo tell Andrea to put on the table? (Scene I)
(a) Jam.
(b) Milk.
(c) Wine.
(d) Bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Scholar claim is drunk again-while play-acting with the Monk?

2. When, according to Galileo, does he "get most inspiration"?

3. According to Bellarmin, whose teachings have been found, by the Holy Office, to be "futile, foolish and heretical"?

4. What does Sarti hand to Galileo while he was telling her about the new discoveries in science?

5. How old does Ludovico say the invention he saw in Holland was?

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