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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What color was bianchi marmi marble?
(a) Cream.
(b) Blue.
(c) Gold.
(d) White.

3. How many miles from Florence was the town that bianchi marmi came from?
(a) 80.
(b) 65.
(c) 75.
(d) 70.

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

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

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

7. Who consecrated the first stone of the lantern at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) Cardinal John.
(b) Cardinal Michel.
(c) Cardinal Antoninus.
(d) Cardinal Francois.

8. When were Filippo's remains exhumed?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1975,
(d) 1974.

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

10. What skill did Filippo have according to his biographer?
(a) Bricklayer.
(b) Goldsmith.
(c) Architect.
(d) Blacksmith.

11. How many steps were there to the summit of Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 464.
(b) 465.
(c) 463.
(d) 466.

12. 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.

13. What was the largest Florentine guild of Filippo's time?
(a) Guild of Bricklayers.
(b) Guild of Stonemasons and Carpenters.
(c) Guild of Code Enforcers.
(d) Guild of Architects.

14. How many years did it take to fire enough bricks for the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 15.
(b) 14.
(c) 13.
(d) 16.

15. Who had been commissioned to create the box where the remains were supposed to be displayed in at Santa Maria del Fiore's consecration ceremony?
(a) John.
(b) Filippo.
(c) Antonio.
(d) Lorenzo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose iron rod model was destroyed after Filippo presented his model?

2. In what year did Lorenzo Ghiberti complete "Doors of Paradise"?

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

4. How long did the brick makers in Florence have to wait to unload the kiln after the bricks were done being fired?

5. From the Renaissance on what did most domes have at the top?

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