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

2. What competition played a pivotal role in Filippo's career?
(a) Design for dome at Santa Maria del Fiore.
(b) Design for lantern at Baptistery of San Giovanni.
(c) Design for lantern at Santa Maria del Fiore.
(d) Bronze doors for the Baptistery of San Giovanni.

3. In what year did Filippo permanently return to Florence?
(a) 1418.
(b) 1417.
(c) 1416.
(d) 1419.

4. What guidebook in the 1400s directed visitors to the holy sites of Rome?
(a) Mirabilia urbis romae.
(b) Roma Sotterranea.
(c) Descriptio urbis Romae.
(d) Roma instaurata.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the meaning of Santa Maria del Fiore?

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

3. What did the author say the atmosphere in Rome was like?

4. What did many Florentine artists in Filippo's time have a dim view of?

5. How many people died in the worst Black Death outbreak in Florence?

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