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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?
(a) Daniel Deronda.
(b) The Mill on the Floss.
(c) Romola.
(d) Silas Marner.

2. Whom does the author cite as building on the artistic endeavors of Uccello and Piero della Francisca?
(a) Jackson Pollock.
(b) Andy Warhol.
(c) Pablo Picasso.
(d) Vincent van Gogh.

3. As mentioned in Chapter 4, which artist enjoyed witnessing hangings?
(a) Brunelleschi.
(b) Fra Fillipo Lippi.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Leonardo.

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, what artistic idea did the Venetians learn from the Florentines?
(a) Cubism.
(b) Perspective.
(c) Trompe l'oeil.
(d) Impressionism.

5. Before the mid-1700s, on what day did the Florentine calendar start?
(a) January 1.
(b) December 25.
(c) March 25.
(d) April 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the middle of the main piazza of Florence?

2. Under whose leadership were the Patarenes quashed?

3. Which church does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "half a grain depot to be used in case of emergency, siege, or famine"?

4. Who wrote the instructional booklet Della Pittura?

5. What was Paolo Uccello's birth name?

(see the answer key)

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