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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the winner of the wooden chain designing contest when the time came to build the chain?
(a) His design didn't work.
(b) He broke his arm.
(c) He became very ill.
(d) He broke his leg.

2. What group in Florence ordered the most bianchi marmi?
(a) The Wardens.
(b) The Opera.
(c) The Stonemasons.
(d) The Bricklayers.

3. What were the unskilled laborers at Santa Maria del Fiore called?
(a) Uomini senza nome e famiglia.
(b) Uomini nome e famiglia.
(c) Senza nome famiglia.
(d) Famiglia nome Uomini.

4. Who built a bronze statue of St. Matthew for the church of Orsanmichele in 1422?
(a) Antonio.
(b) Filippo.
(c) Johan.
(d) Lorenzo.

5. What did the Italian word for the building trade workers mean?
(a) Small people.
(b) Regular people.
(c) Little people.
(d) Important people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feat of physical prowess did Leon Battista Alberti accomplish?

2. What was the name of the Roman high road from the south?

3. Who wrote the book "On Aqueducts"?

4. When was "On the Tranquility of the Soul" written?

5. What line of work did Filippo apprentice in?

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