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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. What word is used to reference a report issued by the office to important officials?
(a) Summarization.
(b) Discourse.
(c) Outline.
(d) Brief.

2. In what year was Galileo's daughter born?
(a) 1623.
(b) 1603.
(c) 1619.
(d) 1600.

3. Although the Dialogue was never legally banned, its printing was ______.
(a) Painstakingly slow.
(b) Postponed.
(c) Constantly modified.
(d) Canceled.

4. Galileo would be allowed to go home if he agreed to do what to the Dialogue?
(a) Burn.
(b) Include the church.
(c) Modify.
(d) Rewrite.

5. What is another name for a nun's living quarters?
(a) State room.
(b) Cabin.
(c) Cell.
(d) Cupboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years did it take Galileo to write that particular work?

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

3. Galileo was eventually named head mathematician and philosopher to which of the following people?

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

5. Maria Celeste managed to keep informed of Galileo's trials with the help of which family member's brother?

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