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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who performed the "egg trick" described in Chapter 5?
(a) Donatello.
(b) Brunelleschi.
(c) Pope Clement VII.
(d) Dante.

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

3. Which group of people most commonly gets robbed in Florence?
(a) Germans and Swedes.
(b) Italians.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Americans.

4. What type of political speech does Chapter 3 describe as occurring frequently in Florence since medieval times?
(a) Mudslinging.
(b) Elegiac.
(c) Harangue.
(d) Filibuster.

5. What does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "a stone hypodermic needle"?
(a) The memorial to Michelangelo.
(b) The tower of Palazzo Vecchio.
(c) The lightning rod on the triumphal arch.
(d) The steeple of Santa Croce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the instructional booklet Della Pittura?

2. What does the author call "an incubus on its present population"?

3. Who was the first Florentine Christian martyr?

4. From where did the Florentines take Donatello's "Judith and Holofernes" before bringing it to the Palazzo Vecchio?

5. Which novel does the author compare to Dante's Divine Comedy in Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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