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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What day is market day in Florence?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Friday.

2. Who is described as the "ideally self-interested despot"?
(a) Machiavelli's Prince.
(b) Don Quixote.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Mussolini.

3. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?
(a) Saint Francis.
(b) Gregory the Great.
(c) Ugo of Tuscany.
(d) Michelangelo.

4. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what injury was suffered by the woman who was hit by two bicycles?
(a) A cracked skull.
(b) Two broken legs.
(c) A broken arm.
(d) Internal bleeding.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 1, of what does everyone in Florence complain about?

3. As mentioned at the end of Chapter 1, who hid in the German Institute during World War II?

4. What adjective does the author use to describe Venice and Siena in Chapter 1?

5. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?

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