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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the book "On Aqueducts" rediscovered?
(a) Rome.
(b) Monte Cassino.
(c) Carpio.
(d) Florence.

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

3. How long did the pope stay in Florence after his arrival in January 1419?
(a) 23 months.
(b) 22 months.
(c) 21 months.
(d) 20 months.

4. What was created after Filippo's device for the Santa Maria del Fiore was finished?
(a) Marble chain.
(b) Limestone chain.
(c) Granite chain.
(d) Sandstone chain.

5. Who created the model for the item that was developed after Filippo's device was finished?
(a) Jacopo Ghiberti.
(b) Jacopo di Niccolo.
(c) Jacopo Andreas.
(d) Jacopo Medici.

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

7. Who ultimately built the wooden chain?
(a) Filippo.
(b) Antonio.
(c) Lorenzo.
(d) Johan.

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

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

10. What was the name of the pope that arrived in Florence in January 1419?
(a) Pope Martin V.
(b) Pope Eugene IV.
(c) Pope Nicholas IV.
(d) Pope Gregory XII.

11. What did Cimabue mean?
(a) Boars head.
(b) Cow head.
(c) Ox head.
(d) Sheep head.

12. What did the majority of architectural commissions that Filippo received in 1419 include?
(a) Cupolas.
(b) Staircases.
(c) Domes.
(d) Lanterns.

13. What did many Florentine artists in Filippo's time have a dim view of?
(a) Nobles.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Family.
(d) The Opera.

14. How old was Filippo in 1418?
(a) 42.
(b) 44.
(c) 41.
(d) 4.

15. What was the Italian word for the building trade workers?
(a) Bravo lavoratore.
(b) Popolo minuto.
(c) Fabbricare.
(d) Constatazione.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who commissioned the St. Matthew statue for the church of Orsanmichele?

2. What were the catacombs in Florence used for in the 1400s?

3. How much money would the winning designer of the dome for the Santa Maria del Fiore win?

4. What type of trees had been ordered for the platforms and scaffolds at Santa Maria del Fiore?

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

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