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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Florentine art express the concept of infamy?
(a) Through pen and ink drawings.
(b) Through bas relief sculpture.
(c) Through painting.
(d) Through fresco.

4. As discussed in Chapter 3, what caused the civic unrest in medieval Florence?
(a) The fight for liberty against tyranny.
(b) Pride.
(c) The heavy taxes Rome imposed.
(d) Ambition and envy.

5. What Florentine church housed a respected music school in the fourteenth century?
(a) Santa Maria Novella.
(b) Santa Croce.
(c) Santa Trinita.
(d) Santa Biblia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?

2. What was the first opera?

3. What church replaced the Santa Reparata?

4. To whom did Petrarch write his love sonnets?

5. Which artist suffered a broken nose as a child?

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