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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, in Rome.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tragic affliction was responsible for the death of Prince Cesi?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Scurvy.
(c) Rheumatic Fever.
(d) Bubonic Plague.

2. Galileo was forced to travel to Rome to obtain which type of license?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Driver's.
(c) Printing.
(d) Contractor's.

3. One of the things that got the pope in trouble was his view regarding:
(a) Jewish Re-education.
(b) Protestant Reformation.
(c) Catholic Condemnation.
(d) Pagan Ostracizing.

4. In what year was Galileo first told to desist on his astronomical work?
(a) 1610.
(b) 1615.
(c) 1620.
(d) 1623.

5. The letter was written to express condolences for the loss of ______, Galileo's sister.
(a) Maria.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Oliva.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man was killed, in part, for stating which of the following:

2. Which Italian city seemed to be the only one spared from the epidemic?

3. In 1627, Italy was on the brink of which upcoming skirmish?

4. Which of Galileo's books was finally published in 1630?

5. Because of a lack of follow through, which inventor came up with the same idea less than twenty years later?

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