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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object did Toscanelli add to the Duomo, as mentioned in Chapter 4?
(a) A spiral staircase.
(b) A metronome.
(c) A gnomon.
(d) A pipe organ.

2. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?
(a) Donatello.
(b) Beccadelli.
(c) Dante.
(d) Daniel DeFoe.

3. To whom did Petrarch write his love sonnets?
(a) Helen.
(b) Beatrice.
(c) Laura.
(d) Clarice.

4. According to the medieval conception of Florence, which city is Florence's mother?
(a) Rome.
(b) Athens.
(c) Constantinople.
(d) Alexandria.

5. Whom does the author describe in Chapter 6 as a "tame, cruel housemouser"?
(a) Cosimo I.
(b) Lorenzo de' Medici.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Botticelli.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 4, what novel contains a painting as the antagonist?

2. Who eventually renounced his nude sculpture "Neptune"?

3. What was directly outside the boundaries of ancient Florence?

4. From where did the stone for the Santa Trinita bridge come?

5. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?

(see the answer key)

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