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

2. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?
(a) Gregory the Great.
(b) Ugo of Tuscany.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Saint Francis.

3. According to Chapter 1, who normally sells the postcards in a Florentine church?
(a) A nun.
(b) No one.
(c) The sacristan.
(d) The priest.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?

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

4. As mentioned at the end of Chapter 1, who hid in the German Institute during World War II?

5. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?

(see the answer key)

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