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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many religious feasts were held each week in Florence during Filippo's time?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

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

4. What else did the brick makers in Florence mold in their kilns?
(a) Granite.
(b) Sandstone.
(c) Limestone.
(d) Marble.

5. In what year did Filippo begin rebuilding the Augustinian church of Santo Spirito?
(a) 1431.
(b) 1430.
(c) 1428.
(d) 1429.

6. How many months before the consecration of the Santa Maria del Fiore dome did Lorenzo's position as capomaestro end?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

7. Who imprisoned Filippo in 1434?
(a) Antonio Silvestri.
(b) Lorenzo Silvestri.
(c) Raynaldo Silvestri.
(d) John Silvestri.

8. Who did the city of Florence go to war with in 1424?
(a) Duke of Venice.
(b) Duke of Naples.
(c) Duke of Rome.
(d) Duke of Milan.

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

10. Where was Filippo's body entombed after his death?
(a) St. Anselmo.
(b) St. Peter's.
(c) Santa Maria del Fiore.
(d) St. Agostino.

11. How many people entered the lantern designing contest for the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

12. How much was Filippo's pay cut during the war of 1424?
(a) 60 florins.
(b) 70 florins.
(c) 50 florins.
(d) 80 florins.

13. How far from Florence was the city of Lucca?
(a) 70 miles.
(b) 40 miles.
(c) 60 miles.
(d) 50 miles.

14. When was the first stone of the lantern at Santa Maria del Fiore consecrated?
(a) April 1446.
(b) March 1446.
(c) May 1446.
(d) June 1446.

15. Who plagiarized Filippo's lantern design?
(a) Antonio Bianchi.
(b) Antonio Niolis.
(c) Antonio di Ciaccheri Manetti.
(d) Antonio Ghiberti.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years had the residents of Florence been waiting to see the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore completed?

2. What fresco decorates the interior of the vault at Santa Maria del Fiore?

3. Why did most architects from the middle ages remain anonymous?

4. What was Lorenzo notorious for in Florence?

5. At what pier in Santa Maria del Fiore did the steps begin?

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