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

2. How many years had the residents of Florence been waiting to see the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore completed?
(a) 80.
(b) 70.
(c) 100.
(d) 90.

3. When did Leon Battista Alberti write his famous description of the cupola at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 1431.
(b) 1428.
(c) 1430.
(d) 1429.

4. How tall did contemporary tests determine that Filippo had been?
(a) 5 feet 7 inches.
(b) 5 feet 6 inches.
(c) 5 feet 5 inches.
(d) 5 feet 4 inches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Alberti clan banished from Florence?

2. In what year was the Santa Maria del Fiore consecrated?

3. 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?

4. Who plagiarized Filippo's lantern design?

5. How many months before the consecration of the Santa Maria del Fiore dome did Lorenzo's position as capomaestro end?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Annunciation Day celebrate?

2. Why were lanterns such an important part of domes in the Renaissance?

3. In what order did the capomaestros die?

4. What idea was Filippo not able to convince the wardens to agree to?

5. How did the war against Lucca impact the progress of construction at Santa Maria del Fiore?

6. Why was the quality of the mortar very important in the construction of the dome?

7. What happened to Filippo in August 1434 after the meeting with the wardens?

8. Why were bricks carefully regulated in Florence?

9. What type of problems have been caused by large buildings throughout history?

10. Discuss the fresco that decorated the interior of the vault at Santa Maria del Fiore.

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