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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Donatello's statue of John the Baptist as a boy called?
(a) San Giovannino.
(b) Little John.
(c) The Voice in the Wilderness.
(d) San Giovanni ante Baptiste.

2. Who is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 2?
(a) Mussolini.
(b) Catiline.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Michelangelo.

3. As mentioned in Chapter 2, who carried Donatello's statue of the Infant Jesus into battle?
(a) Romulus.
(b) Totila.
(c) Savonarola.
(d) Fiorino.

4. As Chapter 2 mentions, what place in Florence "resembles a petrified forest"?
(a) The butterfly garden at the Boboli.
(b) Michelangelo's studio.
(c) The tomb of San Miniato.
(d) The basement of the Duomo.

5. According to the information provided in the first paragraph of Chapter 2, who attacked Fiesole?
(a) Charlemagne.
(b) Hannibal.
(c) Attila the Hun.
(d) Fiorino.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the battle of Pistoria take place?

2. According to Chapter 1, if you are lost in Florence, whom should you ask for directions?

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

4. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?

5. Which group of people does the author mention in Chapter 1 as willing to show their city to anyone?

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