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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. What group commissioned the majority of the projects that Filippo worked on in 1419?
(a) Mason's Guild.
(b) Bricklayers Guild.
(c) Builders Guild.
(d) Wool Guild.

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

3. What did the Italian word for the building trade workers mean?
(a) Little people.
(b) Regular people.
(c) Important people.
(d) Small people.

4. In what year were cracks discovered in the side walls of the Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 1429.
(b) 1430.
(c) 1432.
(d) 1431.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Filippo's fellow goldsmith who was a renowned artist by the time he was forty?

2. Who described the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore as being built "circle by circle"?

3. In what year was the Alberti clan banished from Florence?

4. What else did the brick makers in Florence mold in their kilns?

5. What feat of physical prowess did Leon Battista Alberti accomplish?

(see the answer key)

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