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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 5, who was born the year Michelangelo died?
(a) Saint Francis.
(b) Dante.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Leonardo.

2. Who wrote a sonnet denouncing Pistoia?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Dante.

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, what artistic idea did the Venetians learn from the Florentines?
(a) Impressionism.
(b) Trompe l'oeil.
(c) Cubism.
(d) Perspective.

5. As mentioned in Chapter 5, who humbled Emperor Henry IV?
(a) Countess Matilda of Tuscany.
(b) Catherine of Siena.
(c) Julian of Norwich.
(d) Hildegard of Bingen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which artist, mentioned in Chapter 4, was famous for painting dragons?

2. What is the title of the hymn that Chapter 6 mentions as having been composed by one of Savonarola's adherents?

3. When were the statues that decorated the Santa Trinita bridge sculpted?

4. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?

5. Whose favorite artistic medium was terra verde?

(see the answer key)

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