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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Italian word for the building trade workers?
(a) Fabbricare.
(b) Popolo minuto.
(c) Constatazione.
(d) Bravo lavoratore.

2. How many bricks could the average brick maker in Florence fire per year?
(a) 400,000.
(b) 350,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 450,000.

3. Who built an aqueduct in the town of Saldae, Algeria in A.D. 148?
(a) Filippo Datus.
(b) Nonius Datus.
(c) Lorenzo Datus.
(d) Johan Datus.

4. What was the meaning of Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) Our Lady of Poverty.
(b) Our Lady of Means.
(c) Our Lady of Justice.
(d) Our Lady of the Flower.

5. When did work begin on the device Filippo created to lift the materials up to the cupola at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 1420.
(b) 1421.
(c) 1422.
(d) 1423.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did construction begin on the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore?

2. When was the book "On Aqueducts" rediscovered?

3. When was the second sandstone chain placed at Santa Maria del Fiore?

4. Where was the cathedral located that Filippo gave advice on the construction of in 1412?

5. Where was the book "On Aqueducts" rediscovered?

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