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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first Florentine Christian martyr?
(a) San Miniato.
(b) San Juan de la Cruz.
(c) San Fernando.
(d) Saint Stephen.

2. From where did the Florentines take Donatello's "Judith and Holofernes" before bringing it to the Palazzo Vecchio?
(a) The Medici palace.
(b) Rome.
(c) Venice.
(d) The Uffizi.

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

4. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?
(a) Universities.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Groups of townspeople.
(d) Popes.

5. As mentioned in Chapter 6, which object is prominently venerated in Tuscany?
(a) A piece of leather from John the Baptist's sandals.
(b) The Holy Grail.
(c) The Holy Girdle.
(d) The Shroud of Turin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "a stone hypodermic needle"?

2. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?

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

4. Which famous Florentine statue no longer has a head?

5. What was Paolo Uccello's birth name?

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