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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. Early the next year, a quarantine that would last ______ days was put into effect.
(a) 60.
(b) 35.
(c) 25.
(d) 40.

2. Galileo was afraid to send books to Rome because they would be:
(a) Burned.
(b) Confiscated.
(c) Discarded.
(d) Hidden.

3. What is it called when someone commits a crime against God?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Blasphemy.
(c) Infidelity.
(d) Apostasy.

4. What word is used by Niccolini that means the same thing as "interfered?"
(a) Meddled.
(b) Intruded.
(c) Muckraked.
(d) Excluded.

5. Which of Galileo's books was finally published in 1630?
(a) From Here to the Stars.
(b) Dialogue on the Tides.
(c) Discourse on Gravity.
(d) Secrets of the Sun and Moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Galileo stay in Rome?

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

3. What was the name of the town where the convent was located?

4. Which member of the Medici was installed as the Grand Duke of Tuscany?

5. What was the name of the place Maria Celeste worked at the convent?

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