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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) 1510.
(b) 1609.
(c) 1409.
(d) 1710.
2. Where does Virginia say she will be married?
(a) Holland.
(b) Florence.
(c) Rome.
(d) Prague.
3. How old is Galileo when he was arguing with the Curator about salary?
(a) 35 years old.
(b) 27 years old.
(c) 76 years old.
(d) 46 years old.
4. Who does the Scholar claim is drunk again-while play-acting with the Monk?
(a) Himself.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Mother Earth.
(d) The Duke.
5. What invention does Ludovico tell Galileo about that he has just seen in Holland?
(a) "The horn that hears."
(b) "That funny tube."
(c) "That box that talks."
(d) "The glass that sees."
6. Where does Scene V open?
(a) Hall of the Collegium Romanum in Rome.
(b) The marketplace in Florence.
(c) Venice.
(d) Galileo's home.
7. What does Sarti offer to the Grand Duke as his Court is leaving at the end of Scene IV?
(a) An apple.
(b) A milk.
(c) A flower.
(d) A biscuit.
8. How many stars does Galileo find revolved around Jupiter?
(a) 3 stars.
(b) 6 stars.
(c) 1 stars.
(d) 4 stars.
9. While at the ball, what chapter of the Bible do both Cardinal Bellarmin and Cardinal Barberini quote?
(a) Exodus.
(b) Kings.
(c) Proverbs.
(d) Genesis.
10. How many globes surround the center stone?
(a) 8 globes.
(b) 10 globes.
(c) 12 globes.
(d) 9 globes.
11. According to Bellarmin, whose teachings have been found, by the Holy Office, to be "futile, foolish and heretical"?
(a) Galileo's teachings.
(b) Socrates' teachings.
(c) Plato's teachings.
(d) Copernicus' teachings.
12. Which Dane determines the track of a comet?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Tycho Brahe.
(d) Cosimo Medici.
13. What does the Curator say that Galileo had invented for the city, calling the invention "excellent"?
(a) A telescope.
(b) A drainage system.
(c) A clock.
(d) A water pump.
14. How many years did Sarti work for Monsignor Filippo before working for Galileo?
(a) 7 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 4 years.
15. What bell rings as Virginia entered her father's room? (Scene III)
(a) A noon bell.
(b) A bell for early Mass.
(c) A bell signaling lunch.
(d) An evening bell.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what city does Galileo teach mathematics in the opening of the play?
2. According to Galileo, who were the ones that were "no longer moved by reason"?
3. Who does Andrea tell his mother had "worked out" that the Earth went around the sun?
4. On what date did the inquisition put the Copernican teachings on the index?
5. What chess piece does Galileo say took to "moving all over the board"?
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