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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Before the mid-1700s, on what day did the Florentine calendar start?
(a) April 1.
(b) March 25.
(c) December 25.
(d) January 1.

4. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?
(a) Romola.
(b) Daniel Deronda.
(c) The Mill on the Floss.
(d) Silas Marner.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?

4. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?

5. Who was the first Florentine Christian martyr?

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