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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the author cite as building on the artistic endeavors of Uccello and Piero della Francisca?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Andy Warhol.
(c) Jackson Pollock.
(d) Vincent van Gogh.

2. In what year did a flood destroy the Marzocco?
(a) 1333.
(b) 641.
(c) 1921.
(d) 72 B.C.

3. What subject of Savonarola's preaching does the author mention in Chapter 4?
(a) Noah's Ark.
(b) Atonement.
(c) The Exodus.
(d) The resurrection.

4. According to information provided in Chapter 4, which artist was posthumously considered to be "a devil"?
(a) Andrea del Castagno.
(b) Donatello.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Titian.

5. When did the battle of Pistoria take place?
(a) 722 B.C.
(b) 62 B.C.
(c) A.D. 66.
(d) 1 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted the Virgin Mary's head in the fresco of the Annunciation at the church Santissima Annunziata?

2. Whom does the author describe in Chapter 6 as a "tame, cruel housemouser"?

3. According to the information provided in the first paragraph of Chapter 2, who attacked Fiesole?

4. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?

5. What Florentine church housed a respected music school in the fourteenth century?

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