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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Machiavelli.
(d) Catiline.

2. What was the home of the Roman governor called?
(a) The Piazza del Campidoglio.
(b) The Piazza del Gubernador.
(c) The Sanhedrin.
(d) The praetorium.

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

4. Who is the patron saint of Florence?
(a) Saint John the Baptist.
(b) Saint Cecilia.
(c) Saint Jerome.
(d) Saint Augustine.

5. To what city is Florence compared in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) London.
(b) Boston.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Donatello's David?

2. Which famous Florentine statue no longer has a head?

3. Which character from Dante's Inferno is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 3?

4. As discussed in Chapter 3, what caused the civic unrest in medieval Florence?

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

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