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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character from Dante's Inferno is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 3?
(a) Vanni Fucci.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Cosimo I.
(d) Machiavelli.

2. What was the name of Florence's prospective satellite city?
(a) Zigurrat.
(b) Sorgane.
(c) Piazza della Romana.
(d) Sarbane.

3. What color is Saint John's robe in the fresco in Santa Maria Novella?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Pink.
(d) Green.

4. Who eventually renounced his nude sculpture "Neptune"?
(a) Andrea del Castagno.
(b) Ammannati.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Michelangelo.

5. Who was Socrates' female counselor?
(a) Sappho.
(b) Helen.
(c) Diotima.
(d) Chloe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what medieval Florentine laws could a supposed political dissenter be convicted without evidence?

2. To whom did Petrarch write his love sonnets?

3. According to Chapter 6, who was the only Florentine diplomat?

4. In what year did a flood destroy the Marzocco?

5. Where did the feud between the Blacks and the Whites begin?

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