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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What type of political speech does Chapter 3 describe as occurring frequently in Florence since medieval times?
(a) Elegiac.
(b) Mudslinging.
(c) Filibuster.
(d) Harangue.

4. Where did Buondelmonte de' Buondelmonti, the bridegroom mentioned in Chapter 2, die?
(a) The Boboli.
(b) The Ponte Vecchio.
(c) The Piazza della Republica.
(d) The Uffizi.

5. How did Florentine art express the concept of infamy?
(a) Through pen and ink drawings.
(b) Through bas relief sculpture.
(c) Through fresco.
(d) Through painting.

6. In what year did a flood destroy the Marzocco?
(a) 641.
(b) 1333.
(c) 1921.
(d) 72 B.C.

7. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?
(a) Savonarola.
(b) Pope Clement VII.
(c) Cosimo il Vecchio.
(d) Donatello.

8. When did the battle of Pistoria take place?
(a) 62 B.C.
(b) 722 B.C.
(c) 1 B.C.
(d) A.D. 66.

9. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?
(a) Helen of Troy.
(b) Remus.
(c) Romulus.
(d) The Minotaur.

10. Who wrote a sonnet denouncing Pistoia?
(a) Donatello.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Dante.
(d) Michelangelo.

11. In Chapter 3, to which city is modern Florence contrasted in order to show the difference between Guelph and Ghibelline?
(a) Venice.
(b) Rome.
(c) Vicenza.
(d) Siena.

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

13. According to Chapter 1, if you are lost in Florence, whom should you ask for directions?
(a) Any passerby.
(b) The guard at the Boboli.
(c) A server at any restaurant.
(d) A policeman.

14. Under what medieval Florentine laws could a supposed political dissenter be convicted without evidence?
(a) The Via della Gloriosa.
(b) The Laws of Loyalty.
(c) The Ordinances of Justice.
(d) The Pax Romana.

15. As represented in the statue at the Bargello, what weapon does Saint George conspicuously not carry?
(a) A quarterstaff.
(b) A dagger.
(c) A whip.
(d) A sword.

Short Answer Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what injury was suffered by the woman who was hit by two bicycles?

2. As discussed in Chapter 3, who defiled Savonarola's pulpit?

3. Who brought about the Donation of Constantine?

4. What day is market day in Florence?

5. Who was the wife of Cosimo I?

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