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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "Ode to the West Wind"?
(a) Robert Browning.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

2. Whom does the author call "the resident humanist in the Medici household"?
(a) Clarice Orsini.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Poliziano.
(d) Catherine the Great.

3. According to Chapter 4, what object is frequently found in the center of Florentine paintings of the Annunciation?
(a) A Bible.
(b) An Easter lily.
(c) A pillar.
(d) A dove.

4. Whose favorite artistic medium was terra verde?
(a) Bocaccio.
(b) Botticelli.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Paolo Uccello.

5. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?
(a) Jewish astronomers.
(b) Venetian nobility.
(c) Roman soldiers.
(d) Greek scholars.

Short Answer Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?

2. Whom does the author cite as building on the artistic endeavors of Uccello and Piero della Francisca?

3. According to popular opinion as mentioned by the author in Chapter 4, who is the person represented in the center of "Universal Deluge"?

4. What is Donatello's statue of John the Baptist as a boy called?

5. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?

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