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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As represented in the statue at the Bargello, what weapon does Saint George conspicuously not carry?
(a) A whip.
(b) A sword.
(c) A quarterstaff.
(d) A dagger.

2. What was the nickname for people who followed Savonarola?
(a) Mascarpone.
(b) Pietone.
(c) Piagnone.
(d) Corleone.

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

4. Which famous Florentine statue no longer has a head?
(a) Primavera.
(b) David.
(c) La Dama del Alba.
(d) Dawn.

5. What was the home of the Roman governor called?
(a) The Sanhedrin.
(b) The Piazza del Gubernador.
(c) The Piazza del Campidoglio.
(d) The praetorium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What museum in Florence does the author call "a picture gallery" in Chapter 4?

2. In what work does Milton mention Florence three times?

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

4. With whom did Donatello live?

5. As Chapter 2 mentions, what place in Florence "resembles a petrified forest"?

(see the answer key)

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