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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. How many different types of bricks were required in the construction of the cupola at the Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

2. What feat of physical prowess did Leon Battista Alberti accomplish?
(a) Slaying a huge beast.
(b) Piercing an iron breastplate with an arrow.
(c) Creating a new invention.
(d) Carrying loads of heavy stone on his back.

3. What type of problems did buildings of large dimensions cause?
(a) Time restraints.
(b) Architectural.
(c) Moral.
(d) Construction.

4. What was the city of Rome known as?
(a) City of Love.
(b) City of Lights.
(c) City of the Renaissance.
(d) The Eternal City.

5. What was the prize for creating a wooden chain for the Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 150 florins.
(b) 250 florins.
(c) 100 florins.
(d) 200 florins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that the founder of Florence was Lucius Cornelius Sulla?

2. What was the wooden chain at Santa Maria del Fiore made of?

3. Who wrote "Divine Comedy"?

4. Who built a bronze statue of St. Matthew for the church of Orsanmichele in 1422?

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

(see the answer key)

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