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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What Florentine church housed a respected music school in the fourteenth century?
(a) Santa Biblia.
(b) Santa Croce.
(c) Santa Maria Novella.
(d) Santa Trinita.

4. Who wrote the instructional booklet Della Pittura?
(a) Brunelleschi.
(b) Leon Battista Alberti.
(c) Paolo Uccello.
(d) Toscanelli.

5. Which artist, mentioned in Chapter 4, was famous for painting dragons?
(a) Uccello.
(b) Leonardo.
(c) Andrea del Castagno.
(d) Piero di Cosimo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the author call "the resident humanist in the Medici household"?

2. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?

3. Who killed Giuliano, according to the tale related in Chapter 6?

4. What is the title of the hymn that Chapter 6 mentions as having been composed by one of Savonarola's adherents?

5. Who painted the Virgin Mary's head in the fresco of the Annunciation at the church Santissima Annunziata?

(see the answer key)

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