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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Cimabue mean?
(a) Ox head.
(b) Cow head.
(c) Sheep head.
(d) Boars head.

2. What group commissioned the majority of the projects that Filippo worked on in 1419?
(a) Mason's Guild.
(b) Builders Guild.
(c) Wool Guild.
(d) Bricklayers Guild.

3. What was the Italian word for the building trade workers?
(a) Bravo lavoratore.
(b) Constatazione.
(c) Popolo minuto.
(d) Fabbricare.

4. What line of work did Filippo apprentice in?
(a) Construction.
(b) Painting.
(c) Goldsmithing.
(d) Sculpture.

5. Who said that the founder of Florence was Lucius Cornelius Sulla?
(a) Filippo Bruni.
(b) John Bruni.
(c) Lorenzo Bruni.
(d) Leonardo Bruni.

6. Who created the model for the item that was developed after Filippo's device was finished?
(a) Jacopo Andreas.
(b) Jacopo di Niccolo.
(c) Jacopo Medici.
(d) Jacopo Ghiberti.

7. Who called Florence "that beautiful and famous daughter of Rome"?
(a) Brunelleschi.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Dante.
(d) Da Vinci.

8. What was the name of Filippo's fellow goldsmith who was a renowned artist by the time he was forty?
(a) Lorenzo Ghiberti.
(b) Cosimo Ghiberti.
(c) Angelo Ghiberti.
(d) John Ghiberti.

9. How old was the child that Filippo adopted in 1419?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 9.
(d) 10.

10. When was Historia Florentinorum written?
(a) 1490s.
(b) 1510s.
(c) 1500s.
(d) 1520s.

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

12. How long did the pope stay in Florence after his arrival in January 1419?
(a) 23 months.
(b) 20 months.
(c) 22 months.
(d) 21 months.

13. What was the city of Rome known as?
(a) The Eternal City.
(b) City of Love.
(c) City of Lights.
(d) City of the Renaissance.

14. In what district of Florence did Filippo live?
(a) Arcetri.
(b) Novoli.
(c) San Giovanni.
(d) Galluzzo.

15. What was the Santa Maria Del Fiore being built to replace?
(a) Santa Reparata.
(b) Santa Del Fuorte.
(c) Santa Italia.
(d) Santa Advantia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Filippo permanently return to Florence?

2. What river bank downstream from Florence did Filippo have leveled in 1420?

3. How long had they been planning the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore before the construction began?

4. What was the name of the pope that arrived in Florence in January 1419?

5. How did the author describe the hills surrounding Florence in the 1400s?

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