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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Italian word for the building trade workers mean?
(a) Important people.
(b) Regular people.
(c) Small people.
(d) Little people.

2. What was the name of the pope that arrived in Florence in January 1419?
(a) Pope Martin V.
(b) Pope Gregory XII.
(c) Pope Nicholas IV.
(d) Pope Eugene IV.

3. Whose remains were supposed to be displayed at Santa Maria del Fiore's consecration ceremony?
(a) St. Zenobius.
(b) St. John.
(c) St. Patrick.
(d) St. Lorenzo.

4. What river bank downstream from Florence did Filippo have leveled in 1420?
(a) Arno.
(b) Ponte Vecchio.
(c) Adige.
(d) Piave.

5. What group commissioned the majority of the projects that Filippo worked on in 1419?
(a) Mason's Guild.
(b) Bricklayers Guild.
(c) Wool Guild.
(d) Builders Guild.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Filippo's fellow goldsmith who was a renowned artist by the time he was forty?

2. When was the winning design for the wooden chain for the Santa Maria del Fiore chosen?

3. How many pounds of bronze were melted for the Baptistery doors in Florence?

4. What type of trees had been ordered for the platforms and scaffolds at Santa Maria del Fiore?

5. What nationality was the man who built the aqueduct in Saldae, Algeria in A.D. 148?

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