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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the Roman high road from the south?
(a) Currus.
(b) Via Appia.
(c) Vereda.
(d) Angaria.

2. Who did Filippo build a house for in 1412?
(a) Cosimo Medici.
(b) Cosimo Lapi.
(c) Apollonio Lapi.
(d) Apollonio Medici.

3. What line of work did Filippo apprentice in?
(a) Painting.
(b) Construction.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Goldsmithing.

4. When was the contest to find someone to create a model for the dome for the Santa Maria del Fiore announced?
(a) August 22nd, 1418.
(b) August 19, 1418.
(c) August 21st 1418.
(d) August 20th, 1418.

5. How long would it have taken a craftsman to earn the amount of money that was being given away in the dome designing contest?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Filippo permanently return to Florence?

2. Who had been the original architect of the Santa Maria del Fiore?

3. How many people were left in Rome after the Black Death outbreak of 1348?

4. What disease killed 4/5 of Florence's population in 1348?

5. What guidebook in the 1400s directed visitors to the holy sites of Rome?

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