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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the patron saint of Florence?
(a) Saint Augustine.
(b) Saint John the Baptist.
(c) Saint Cecilia.
(d) Saint Jerome.

2. Which group of people does the author mention in Chapter 1 as willing to show their city to anyone?
(a) Florentines.
(b) Romans.
(c) Parisians.
(d) Venetians.

3. What is the object that is most frequently stolen in Florence?
(a) Passport.
(b) Wallet.
(c) Camera.
(d) Bicycle.

4. According to the author's opinion as stated in Chapter 1, Italians are not what?
(a) "Willing to sit in traffic."
(b) "Accustomed to fast food."
(c) "Civic-minded."
(d) "Fastidiously religious."

5. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?
(a) Cosimo I.
(b) Farinata.
(c) Catiline.
(d) Machiavelli.

Short Answer Questions

1. What artist is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 4?

2. Who wrote a sonnet denouncing Pistoia?

3. What does the author call "an incubus on its present population"?

4. According to Chapter 4, what object is frequently found in the center of Florentine paintings of the Annunciation?

5. Which religious sect of medieval Florence was vegetarian and believed that the world was utterly depraved?

(see the answer key)

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