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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five, At Siena.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the town where the friend lived?
(a) Arno.
(b) Rome.
(c) Acquasparta.
(d) Arcetri.

2. What was the name of Galileo's second daughter to enter the convent?
(a) Maria.
(b) Livia.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Constance.

3. How many bystanders were at the meeting of Galileo and the Office of the Inquisition?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. How many cardinals would preside over Galileo's trial?
(a) 21.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 13.

5. What word is used to describe a long and arduous process?
(a) Anti-climactic.
(b) Tedious.
(c) Painstaking.
(d) Laborious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which type of clock was invented by Galileo and another person?

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

3. Galileo was eager to go to Rome to march with which prestigious group?

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

5. Galileo went to work in the court of which royal?

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