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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As represented in the statue at the Bargello, what weapon does Saint George conspicuously not carry?
(a) A quarterstaff.
(b) A dagger.
(c) A whip.
(d) A sword.

2. What does the author call "an incubus on its present population"?
(a) Historic Florence.
(b) The Ponte Vecchio.
(c) The Pieta.
(d) The David.

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

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

5. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?
(a) The Minotaur.
(b) Romulus.
(c) Remus.
(d) Helen of Troy.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did the Florentines take Donatello's "Judith and Holofernes" before bringing it to the Palazzo Vecchio?

2. What is the main road between Siena and Rome?

3. What does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "a stone hypodermic needle"?

4. Who is described as the "ideally self-interested despot"?

5. What day is market day in Florence?

(see the answer key)

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