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

2. What was Paolo Uccello's birth name?
(a) Paolo di Coppola.
(b) Paolo di Dono.
(c) Paolo di Medici.
(d) Paolo Fernandi.

3. The artist mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 4 is puzzling over what subject?
(a) Perspective.
(b) Form.
(c) Balance.
(d) Line.

4. From where did the stone for the Santa Trinita bridge come?
(a) Rome.
(b) The Boboli Garden.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) The quarries to the north of the city.

5. According to popular opinion as mentioned by the author in Chapter 4, who is the person represented in the center of "Universal Deluge"?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) Dante.
(c) Moses.
(d) Noah.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 6, which month is the "classic Florentine 'month'"?

3. According to information provided in Chapter 4, which artist was posthumously considered to be "a devil"?

4. According to the medieval conception of Florence, which city is Florence's mother?

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

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