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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described as the "ideally self-interested despot"?
(a) Don Quixote.
(b) Machiavelli's Prince.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Mussolini.

2. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Beatrice.
(c) Catherine of Siena.
(d) Ambrose.

3. According to Chapter 1, how much did the piece of masonry that fell from the National Library weigh?
(a) 30 pounds.
(b) 5 pounds.
(c) 132 pounds.
(d) Approximately 1200 pounds.

4. According to Chapter 1, if you are lost in Florence, whom should you ask for directions?
(a) The guard at the Boboli.
(b) A policeman.
(c) Any passerby.
(d) A server at any restaurant.

5. As mentioned at the end of Chapter 1, who hid in the German Institute during World War II?
(a) Communists.
(b) Anti-Nazis.
(c) Nazis.
(d) Fascists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the bird of Florence?

2. Which Florentine church is too far outside Florence for most tourists to visit?

3. According to the author, who is the only person who can observe Florence well?

4. According to Chapter 1, of what does everyone in Florence complain about?

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

(see the answer key)

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