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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four, In Care of the Tuscan Embassy, Villa Medici, Rome.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Maria Celeste recalls being in the garden with her father learning about which of the following?
(a) Gravity.
(b) Telescope.
(c) Tides.
(d) Mathematics.

2. The man was killed, in part, for stating which of the following:
(a) Galileo should be canonized.
(b) Earth is not flat.
(c) There are other planets in the galaxy.
(d) Earth travels around the Sun.

3. To which royal figure was the work dedicated?
(a) Second Baron.
(b) Viscount of Rome.
(c) Grand Duke.
(d) Crown Prince.

4. Maria Celeste hoped fervently that the Pope and others would dismiss the trial once they realized the extent of Galileo's _____.
(a) Illness.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Brilliance.
(d) Repentance.

5. According to the law, it was likely that many people in Galileo's occupation would be considered to be which of the following?
(a) Ill-informed.
(b) Impudent.
(c) Heretics.
(d) Traitors.

Short Answer Questions

1. The investigation into these affairs was known as the __________________.

2. Galileo would be allowed to go home if he agreed to do what to the Dialogue?

3. Galileo left his son with Marina and took his daughters to which Italian city?

4. What is it called when one builds a model of a new product?

5. Which famous man was killed in the same year she was born?

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