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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous member of the Medici family was exiled in 1433?
(a) Pier.
(b) Cosimo.
(c) Giovanni.
(d) Savestro.

2. What were the ties made of that were used to stabilize the walls in the Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) Steel.
(b) Iron.
(c) Marble.
(d) Iron and wood.

3. Whose was the only other body entombed in the building where Filippo's body was entombed?
(a) St. John.
(b) St. Patrick.
(c) St. Zenobius.
(d) St. Lorenzo.

4. What feat of physical prowess did Leon Battista Alberti accomplish?
(a) Creating a new invention.
(b) Carrying loads of heavy stone on his back.
(c) Piercing an iron breastplate with an arrow.
(d) Slaying a huge beast.

5. What was the view on architecture in the middle ages?
(a) Unfit profession for educated men.
(b) It was the career of the future.
(c) It was an excellent career.
(d) It was a fine art.

6. Who was the artist of the fresco that decorates the interior of the vault at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) Vasari.
(b) Da Vinci.
(c) Alberti.
(d) Donatello.

7. Who wrote "Divine Comedy"?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Dante.
(c) Botticelli.
(d) Da Vinci.

8. Whose remains were supposed to be displayed at Santa Maria del Fiore's consecration ceremony?
(a) St. Zenobius.
(b) St. John.
(c) St. Patrick.
(d) St. Lorenzo.

9. On what day was Santa Maria del Fiore consecrated?
(a) August 31st.
(b) September 1st.
(c) August 30th.
(d) September 2nd.

10. From the Renaissance on what did most domes have at the top?
(a) Spire.
(b) Steeple.
(c) Lanterns.
(d) Bell.

11. In what year was the Alberti clan banished from Florence?
(a) 1411.
(b) 1413.
(c) 1412.
(d) 1414.

12. In what year did the beams for the dome start arriving in Florence?
(a) 1432.
(b) 1431.
(c) 1430.
(d) 1429.

13. How many different types of bricks were required in the construction of the cupola at the Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

14. Who commissioned a plaster cast of Filippo's head after his death?
(a) The Opera.
(b) Filippo's son.
(c) Lorenzo Ghiberti.
(d) The Wardens.

15. Who described the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore as being built "circle by circle"?
(a) Giovanni Battista Strozzi.
(b) Filippo Strozzi.
(c) Lorenzo Strozzi.
(d) Leon Strozzi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the bust that was made after Filippo's death made of?

2. How many years had it taken to build the Santa Maria del Fiore?

3. What trait was Filippo not good at according to his biographer?

4. What was the majority of the exterior of the Santa Maria del Fiore tiled in?

5. When did the city of Florence sign a truce with their enemy from 1424?

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