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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the function of medieval towers?
(a) Guest space.
(b) Self-defense.
(c) Aesthetics.
(d) Storage.

2. Who wrote the instructional booklet Della Pittura?
(a) Toscanelli.
(b) Leon Battista Alberti.
(c) Brunelleschi.
(d) Paolo Uccello.

3. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?
(a) Donatello.
(b) Dante.
(c) Daniel DeFoe.
(d) Beccadelli.

4. Who is the person mentioned in Chapter 3 who did not exact revenge from someone he came across on Good Friday?
(a) Uberti.
(b) Cosimo il Vecchio.
(c) Saint Giovanni Gualberto.
(d) Michelangelo.

5. As discussed in Chapter 3, what caused the civic unrest in medieval Florence?
(a) The heavy taxes Rome imposed.
(b) Ambition and envy.
(c) Pride.
(d) The fight for liberty against tyranny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous explorer consulted with Toscanelli?

2. According to Chapter 1, who normally sells the postcards in a Florentine church?

3. In what year did a flood destroy the Marzocco?

4. Who eventually renounced his nude sculpture "Neptune"?

5. Under what medieval Florentine laws could a supposed political dissenter be convicted without evidence?

(see the answer key)

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