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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many bricks could the average kiln hold?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 30,000.

2. What disease killed 4/5 of Florence's population in 1348?
(a) Typhoid Fever.
(b) Botulism.
(c) Polio.
(d) Black Death.

3. Who won the wooden chain designing contest for the Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) Filippo.
(b) Lorenzo.
(c) Antonio.
(d) Johan.

4. What was a rota magna used for?
(a) Lifting heavy beams.
(b) Lifting heavy stones.
(c) Lifting men.
(d) Lifting heavy marble.

5. From what town in Italy did bianchi marmi marble come from?
(a) Lucca.
(b) Prato.
(c) Carrara.
(d) Fiesole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of diversity did the story of the Tower of Babel account for?

2. Who built an aqueduct in the town of Saldae, Algeria in A.D. 148?

3. What was the name of the Roman high road from the south?

4. Where was the dome designing contest being held?

5. What was the size of a basic brick used in Florence during the 1400s?

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