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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 2?
(a) Catiline.
(b) Donatello.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Mussolini.

3. What color of marble is not found in the Florentine hills?
(a) White.
(b) Rose.
(c) Grey.
(d) Green.

4. Which Florentine does the author describe as a "zoophile"?
(a) Brunelleschi.
(b) Uccello.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Ammannati.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous Florentine statue no longer has a head?

2. What buildings in rural Tuscany survived the medieval wars between the nobility and the people?

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

4. According to Chapter 1, how much did the piece of masonry that fell from the National Library weigh?

5. According to the information provided in Chapter 5, what did the palaces used to sell to the people?

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