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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) Farinata.
(b) Catiline.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Cosimo I.

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

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

4. What is in the middle of the main piazza of Florence?
(a) A statue commemorating Pope Clement VII.
(b) A restaurant with a great deal of outdoor seating.
(c) A parking lot.
(d) A huge fountain.

5. What was directly outside the boundaries of ancient Florence?
(a) A cemetery.
(b) A moat.
(c) An open sewer.
(d) An amphitheater.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?

2. Which Florentine church is too far outside Florence for most tourists to visit?

3. What is the name of the river that runs through Florence?

4. According to the medieval conception of Florence, which city is Florence's mother?

5. Who was the first Florentine Christian martyr?

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