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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of diversity did the story of the Tower of Babel account for?
(a) Gender.
(b) Linguistic.
(c) Race.
(d) Educational.

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

3. What did a bishop have concerns about in the fifteenth century regarding Florence's churches?
(a) Structures not being secure.
(b) Corpses defiling the church.
(c) Corruption in the papacy.
(d) Thieves breaking in.

4. What type of sandstone was used for grindstones in the middle ages?
(a) Arkoses.
(b) Lithic.
(c) Shale.
(d) Macigno.

5. How many stone masons worked at Cava di Trassinaia after the work sheds were erected?
(a) 22.
(b) 21.
(c) 20.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Lorenzo immune from arrest in 1433?

2. How much money would the winning designer of the dome for the Santa Maria del Fiore win?

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

4. Who called Florence "that beautiful and famous daughter of Rome"?

5. In what district of Florence did Filippo live?

(see the answer key)

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