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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "a stone hypodermic needle"?
(a) The lightning rod on the triumphal arch.
(b) The tower of Palazzo Vecchio.
(c) The memorial to Michelangelo.
(d) The steeple of Santa Croce.

3. From where did the stone for the Santa Trinita bridge come?
(a) The quarries to the north of the city.
(b) Rome.
(c) The Boboli Garden.
(d) Alexandria.

4. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?
(a) Beccadelli.
(b) Dante.
(c) Daniel DeFoe.
(d) Donatello.

5. Where did Buondelmonte de' Buondelmonti, the bridegroom mentioned in Chapter 2, die?
(a) The Piazza della Republica.
(b) The Uffizi.
(c) The Ponte Vecchio.
(d) The Boboli.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Michelangelo's famous sculpture, which is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 1?

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

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

5. From where did the Florentines take Donatello's "Judith and Holofernes" before bringing it to the Palazzo Vecchio?

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