Galileo Quizzes

Galileo Quiz 1

1 When did the play premiere?
1938

1943

1950

1941
2 Who wrote the play?
Anton Chekhov

Kurt Weill

Henrik Ibsen

Bertolt Brecht
3 What is the play based on?
The life of a real man

An epic poem

Another play

A short story
4 Who wrote the incidental music for the original production?
Bertolt Brecht

Kurt Weill

Hanns Eisler

Lotte Lenya
5 With which style of theater is Brecht associated?
Theater of the absurd

Psychological realism

Kitchen sink

Epic theater
6 With which American actor did Brecht collaborate to create the American version of the play?
Ramon Novarro

Charles Laughton

John Barrymore

Orson Welles
7 In what year did the play premiere in the United States?
1950

1943

1952

1947
8 Where did Galileo live?
Germany

Greece

France

Italy
9 Why did Brecht flee Germany?
To get away from his ex-wife

The Nazis

He was wanted for murder

He was being put on trial for his scientific experiments
10 What was Galileo's intellectual discipline?
Poetry

Philosophy

Visual art

Science (physics and astronomy)
11 What year is it when the play begins?
1604

1617

1612

1609
12 Where does Galileo live in the beginning of the play?
Padua

Bologna

Florence

Venice
13 What is Galileo seeking to prove?
That there are only 3 planets

The Big Bang

That the moon is not another planet

Copernicus' new cosmogony
14 Who is Galileo supposed to pay at the start of the play?
A tax collector

The milkman

His daughter's tutor

Mrs. Sarti
15 How old is Andrea at the start of the play?
7

12

13

10
16 What does Galileo use to show Andrea his theory?
A cat and a spinning top

A bale of hay

An apple and a piece of wood

Two balls
17 Who visits them in the first scene?
The Grand Duke

Ludovico Marsili

Virginia's tutor

Cardinal Barberini
18 What is Ludovico's chief interest?
Dancing

Horses

Reading

Science
19 How much does Galileo charge Ludovico for lessons?
15 scudi

20 scudi

10 scudi

25 scudi
20 Who tells Galileo about telescopes?
He invents them himself

Andrea

Mrs Sarti

Ludovico
21 What salary has Galileo applied for from the procurator?
750 scudi

500 scudi

1000 scudi

2000 scudi
22 How old is Galileo at the start of the play?
52

46

38

28
23 What is Andrea's ambition?
To become a monk

To become a banker

To become a physicist

To become a painter
24 How old is Virginia at the start of the play?
22

12

18

15
25 What does Galileo introduce to the marketplace to make some money?
The telescope

The globe

The protractor

The abacus

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Galileo

by Bertolt Brecht

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