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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did Filippo make per month while working at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 4 florins.
(b) 6 florins.
(c) 3 florins.
(d) 5 florins.

2. How many stone masons worked at Cava di Trassinaia after the work sheds were erected?
(a) 22.
(b) 21.
(c) 19.
(d) 20.

3. What were the catacombs in Florence used for in the 1400s?
(a) Offices.
(b) Prisons.
(c) Storage.
(d) Tombs.

4. What was the wooden chain at Santa Maria del Fiore made of?
(a) Pine.
(b) Mahogany.
(c) Walnut.
(d) Oak.

5. What did Filippo create to lift the materials up to the cupola at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) A pulley system.
(b) A hoist.
(c) A scaffold.
(d) A crane.

6. What work skill was Filippo best known for prior to 1418?
(a) Design skills.
(b) Experiment in linear perspective.
(c) Construction skills.
(d) Creativity.

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

8. How much money would the winning designer of the dome for the Santa Maria del Fiore win?
(a) 270 Florins.
(b) 250 Florins.
(c) 260 Florins.
(d) 200 Florins.

9. What tool was used to cleave stone from the hill at Cava di Trassinaia?
(a) Chisel.
(b) Pick.
(c) Axe.
(d) Saw.

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

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

12. How many people were left in Rome after the Black Death outbreak of 1348?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 20,000.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long would it have taken a craftsman to earn the amount of money that was being given away in the dome designing contest?

2. What did many Florentine artists in Filippo's time have a dim view of?

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

4. When did construction begin on the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore?

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

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