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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote a sonnet denouncing Pistoia?
(a) Dante.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Michelangelo.

2. Where was "The Battle of San Romano" originally housed?
(a) The Boboli Garden.
(b) The Uffizi.
(c) The bedroom of Lorenzo de' Medici.
(d) The chambers of Pope Clement VII.

3. What is the bird of Florence?
(a) A bluebird.
(b) A sparrow.
(c) A crow.
(d) A swallow.

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

5. What structure in the Piazza della Republica celebrates progress?
(a) The triumphal arch.
(b) The statue of a galloping horse.
(c) The bridge over the canal.
(d) The statue of Pope Pius IX.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Under whose leadership were the Patarenes quashed?

3. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?

4. Who wrote the instructional booklet Della Pittura?

5. Where did the feud between the Blacks and the Whites begin?

(see the answer key)

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