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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where did the stone for the Santa Trinita bridge come?
(a) The quarries to the north of the city.
(b) The Boboli Garden.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Rome.

2. What is the object that is most frequently stolen in Florence?
(a) Wallet.
(b) Passport.
(c) Camera.
(d) Bicycle.

3. According to the information provided in the first paragraph of Chapter 2, who attacked Fiesole?
(a) Charlemagne.
(b) Hannibal.
(c) Attila the Hun.
(d) Fiorino.

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

5. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?
(a) Farinata.
(b) Cosimo I.
(c) Catiline.
(d) Machiavelli.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main road between Siena and Rome?

2. What is the bird of Florence?

3. As Chapter 2 mentions, what place in Florence "resembles a petrified forest"?

4. Where is Donatello's David?

5. What is the name of the river that runs through Florence?

(see the answer key)

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