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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As mentioned in the end of Chapter 3, how long was medieval Florence at peace from political unrest?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Six years.
(c) One year.
(d) One hundred years.

2. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?
(a) The Shelleys.
(b) Keats and Wordsworth.
(c) Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams.
(d) The Brownings.

3. Which Florentine church is too far outside Florence for most tourists to visit?
(a) San Miniato.
(b) Santa Maria Novella.
(c) The Duomo.
(d) Santa Trinita.

4. According to Chapter 4, what novel contains a painting as the antagonist?
(a) The Sound and the Fury.
(b) The Picture of Dorian Grey.
(c) Gravity's Rainbow.
(d) Finnegan's Wake.

5. According to the author in Chapter 4, what artistic idea did the Venetians learn from the Florentines?
(a) Perspective.
(b) Trompe l'oeil.
(c) Cubism.
(d) Impressionism.

Short Answer Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what injury was suffered by the woman who was hit by two bicycles?

2. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?

3. What was the name of Florence's prospective satellite city?

4. What church houses art that memorializes the quashing of the Patarenes?

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

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