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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Italian city seemed to be the only one spared from the epidemic?
(a) Siena.
(b) Padua.
(c) Venice.
(d) Sicily.

2. What is the name of the order at the convent?
(a) Rule of the Holy Ghost.
(b) Rule of Saint Clare.
(c) Convent of St. Lucia.
(d) Order of the Virgin Mary.

3. In order to impress the new pope, Galileo sent a copy of his yet to be published work titled:
(a) Treatise on the Tides.
(b) Monologue on the Moons.
(c) Discourse on the Stars.
(d) Investigating the Milky Way.

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

5. Which famous man was killed in the same year she was born?
(a) Copernicus.
(b) Bruno.
(c) Da Vinci.
(d) Medici.

6. What word is used to describe something that is opposite or against?
(a) Contrary.
(b) Complementary.
(c) Chronically.
(d) Ancillary.

7. Convents in Italy were different than in other countries because they were permitted to own which of the following?
(a) Farm equipment.
(b) Cars.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Property.

8. The author speaks at length of the war, which involved which country?
(a) Austria.
(b) England.
(c) Lichtenstein.
(d) Spain.

9. What was the first name of Galileo's daughter before she was taken into the convent?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Annalise.
(c) Catherine.
(d) Patricia.

10. One of the Pope's favorite passages of Galileo's work compares good philosophers to which bird?
(a) Coot.
(b) Sparrow.
(c) Hawk.
(d) Eagle.

11. What was the daughter's first name after she was taken into the convent and received her vows?
(a) Livia.
(b) Maria.
(c) Therese.
(d) Angelica.

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

13. How long did Galileo stay in Rome this time?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 2 months.

14. How was the man killed?
(a) Starvation.
(b) Shot.
(c) Burned at the stake.
(d) Hanged.

15. Although it pained her to do so, Maria Celeste often went to Galileo for which of the following?
(a) Money.
(b) New shoes.
(c) Advice.
(d) Clothing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of Galileo's second daughter to enter the convent?

3. What is it called when someone commits a crime against God?

4. What is it called when a nun is required to stay inside the convent compound at all times?

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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