Question 1
Concerning Galileo and his ideas, the Catholic Church
A) reluctantly agreed to his theories.
B) turned him over to the Papal Curia to serve as a principal secretary.
C) allowed Galileo six months to change his mind, during which he escaped to England to continue his work.
D) forced Galileo to recant them in a trial before the Inquisition.
E) turned him over to the authorities of the Holy Roman Emperor to be tortured.
Question 2
The Boxer Rebellion was a revolt against
A) communist revolutionaries.
B) Christian missionaries and foreigners.
C) immigration quotas that kept the Chinese out of the United States.
D) oppression on the part of the Chinese government.
E) None of these are correct.
Question 3
Galileo's Dialogue on the Two World Systems was chiefly an attempt to
A) expose the errors in the thinking of Copernicus.
B) support Copernicus through a publication in Italian accessible to a wide audience.
C) attack Luther and Protestant theological restrictions on scientific inquiry.
D) apologize to the church for earlier theories he now saw as mistaken.
E) oppose the dogma and doctrine of the Catholic Church.
Question 4
The Boxer Rebellion took place in
A) Mexico.
B) Cuba.
C) China.
D) Japan.
E) Hawai'i.
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