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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the view on architecture in the middle ages?
(a) It was a fine art.
(b) It was the career of the future.
(c) It was an excellent career.
(d) Unfit profession for educated men.

2. How many trees had been ordered for the platforms and scaffolds at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 250.
(b) 100.
(c) 200.
(d) 150.

3. What guidebook in the 1400s directed visitors to the holy sites of Rome?
(a) Mirabilia urbis romae.
(b) Descriptio urbis Romae.
(c) Roma instaurata.
(d) Roma Sotterranea.

4. Who did Filippo build a house for in 1412?
(a) Cosimo Lapi.
(b) Apollonio Medici.
(c) Apollonio Lapi.
(d) Cosimo Medici.

5. When were work sheds erected in Cava di Trassinaia?
(a) March 1421.
(b) March 1423.
(c) March 1422.
(d) March 1424.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were most goldsmith shops in Florence located during Filippo's time?

2. From what town in Italy did bianchi marmi marble come from?

3. What was Lorenzo notorious for in Florence?

4. In what district of Florence did Filippo live?

5. What was the meaning of the name that unskilled laborers at Santa Maria del Fiore were called?

(see the answer key)

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