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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. In what district of Florence did Filippo live?
(a) Galluzzo.
(b) San Giovanni.
(c) Novoli.
(d) Arcetri.

2. What was the name of Filippo's fellow goldsmith who was a renowned artist by the time he was forty?
(a) Angelo Ghiberti.
(b) John Ghiberti.
(c) Lorenzo Ghiberti.
(d) Cosimo Ghiberti.

3. What was a rota magna?
(a) A crane.
(b) A hoist.
(c) Great wheel.
(d) A pulley.

4. In what year did the worst outbreak of the Black Death in Florence occur?
(a) 1401.
(b) 1402.
(c) 1403.
(d) 1400.

5. How did the author describe the hills surrounding Florence in the 1400s?
(a) Intermediate.
(b) Carrying.
(c) Supine.
(d) Supplementary.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did work begin on the device Filippo created to lift the materials up to the cupola at Santa Maria del Fiore?

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

5. What type of gallery did Filippo add to his dome plans for the Santa Maria del Fiore in 1419?

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