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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long had they been planning the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore before the construction began?
(a) 70 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 80 years.
(d) 60 years.

2. What was the Santa Maria Del Fiore being built to replace?
(a) Santa Italia.
(b) Santa Del Fuorte.
(c) Santa Reparata.
(d) Santa Advantia.

3. How old was the child that Filippo adopted in 1419?
(a) 9.
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 8.

4. What type of trees had been ordered for the platforms and scaffolds at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) Oak.
(b) Fir.
(c) Pine.
(d) Maple.

5. What Roman ruins were built with the forced labor of early Christians?
(a) Domus Aruea.
(b) The Baths of Diocletian.
(c) Constantine's Arch.
(d) Colosseum.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men worked on the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore?

2. What were the unskilled laborers at Santa Maria del Fiore called?

3. What did Filippo create to lift the materials up to the cupola at Santa Maria del Fiore?

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

5. Who did Filippo build a house for in 1412?

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