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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which artist, mentioned in Chapter 4, was famous for painting dragons?
(a) Uccello.
(b) Andrea del Castagno.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Piero di Cosimo.

2. How old was Dante when he fought in the battle of Campaldino?
(a) Forty-one.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Thirty.

3. In what work does Milton mention Florence three times?
(a) Paradise Regained.
(b) Samson Agonistes.
(c) Areopagitica.
(d) Paradise Lost.

4. Before the mid-1700s, on what day did the Florentine calendar start?
(a) December 25.
(b) March 25.
(c) April 1.
(d) January 1.

5. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Cosimo I.
(c) Farinata.
(d) Catiline.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did Petrarch write his love sonnets?

2. When did the battle of Pistoria take place?

3. Which church does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "half a grain depot to be used in case of emergency, siege, or famine"?

4. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?

5. What artist is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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