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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the meaning of Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) Our Lady of the Flower.
(b) Our Lady of Poverty.
(c) Our Lady of Justice.
(d) Our Lady of Means.

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

3. What was the city of Rome known as?
(a) City of the Renaissance.
(b) City of Love.
(c) The Eternal City.
(d) City of Lights.

4. How many men worked on the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 400.
(b) 350.
(c) 300.
(d) 500.

5. Who rediscovered the book "On Aqueducts"?
(a) Julius Bracciolini.
(b) Lorenzo Bracciolini.
(c) Filippo Bracciolini.
(d) Poggio Bracciolini.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Roman ruins were built with the forced labor of early Christians?

2. What was the wooden chain at Santa Maria del Fiore made of?

3. What was the prize for creating a wooden chain for the Santa Maria del Fiore?

4. What tool was used to cleave stone from the hill at Cava di Trassinaia?

5. In what district of Florence did Filippo live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Lorenzo Ghiberti?

2. What job was Filippo contracted to do in May 1417?

3. What remarkable thing happened in Filippo's career in 1419?

4. How did master builders during Filippo's time regulate the curvature of domes?

5. Who was Nonius Datus?

6. What was the most important religious feast of Brunelleschi's time?

7. Why did the author describe goldsmithing as "not the most wholesome of professions"?

8. Discuss the construction of the sandstone chain that was used at the Santa Maria del Fiore.

9. What Roman landmark was of great interest in the 1400s?

10. What caused a decision to be delayed in the dome designing contest for the Santa Maria Del Fiore?

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