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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what injury was suffered by the woman who was hit by two bicycles?
(a) Two broken legs.
(b) A cracked skull.
(c) Internal bleeding.
(d) A broken arm.

3. Which group of people most commonly gets robbed in Florence?
(a) Americans.
(b) Germans and Swedes.
(c) Italians.
(d) Greeks.

4. Who is described as the "ideally self-interested despot"?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Mussolini.
(c) Don Quixote.
(d) Machiavelli's Prince.

5. What is the name of Michelangelo's famous sculpture, which is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 1?
(a) Moses.
(b) The Trinity.
(c) David.
(d) The Pieta.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?

2. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?

3. As Chapter 2 mentions, what place in Florence "resembles a petrified forest"?

4. What adjective does the author use to describe Venice and Siena in Chapter 1?

5. Which famous Florentine statue no longer has a head?

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