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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 new law began to frighten many of Galileo's colleagues?
(a) Astronomers' Discourse.
(b) Heretic Law.
(c) Mathematicians' Treatise.
(d) Edict of 1616.

2. Galileo was eventually named head mathematician and philosopher to which of the following people?
(a) Cardinal Richelieu.
(b) Grand Duke of Tuscany.
(c) Archbishop of Canterbury.
(d) Pope Pius XII.

3. What is the standard title given to nuns at the convent?
(a) Bambino.
(b) Mother.
(c) Suor.
(d) Sister.

4. Shortly after, Vincenzo and Sestilia announced the birth of their second child, a boy named:
(a) Fernando.
(b) Carlo.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Michelangelo.

5. It was intended that the girl stay in the convent until her parents could find:
(a) A husband.
(b) A place to live.
(c) An adoptive family.
(d) Money for college.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is it called when someone discredits or speaks out against the church?

3. What word was used to describe Maria Celeste?

4. One of the Pope's favorite passages of Galileo's work compares good philosophers to which bird?

5. In what year did Galileo finally set off for the Vatican?

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