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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the information provided in the first paragraph of Chapter 2, who attacked Fiesole?
(a) Fiorino.
(b) Charlemagne.
(c) Attila the Hun.
(d) Hannibal.

2. Whom does the author describe in Chapter 6 as a "tame, cruel housemouser"?
(a) Lorenzo de' Medici.
(b) Leonardo.
(c) Botticelli.
(d) Cosimo I.

3. In what period did grotesquerie begin to become present in Florentine art?
(a) The Romantic period.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Middle Ages.
(d) The Enlightment.

4. According to Chapter 6, what color is prominent in the paintings of the "springtime painters"?
(a) Gold.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

5. In Chapter 3, to which city is modern Florence contrasted in order to show the difference between Guelph and Ghibelline?
(a) Venice.
(b) Rome.
(c) Siena.
(d) Vicenza.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote a sonnet denouncing Pistoia?

2. According to the author, what building exceeds the Duomo in size and beauty?

3. What object did Toscanelli add to the Duomo, as mentioned in Chapter 4?

4. During a medieval uprising, which group did Michele di Lando lead?

5. What was the nickname for people who followed Savonarola?

(see the answer key)

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