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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the object that is most frequently stolen in Florence?
(a) Wallet.
(b) Camera.
(c) Bicycle.
(d) Passport.

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

3. What structure in the Piazza della Republica celebrates progress?
(a) The statue of Pope Pius IX.
(b) The bridge over the canal.
(c) The statue of a galloping horse.
(d) The triumphal arch.

4. What is the bird of Florence?
(a) A bluebird.
(b) A sparrow.
(c) A swallow.
(d) A crow.

5. What does the author call "an incubus on its present population"?
(a) The Pieta.
(b) The Ponte Vecchio.
(c) The David.
(d) Historic Florence.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city is Florence compared in the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?

3. What is the name of Michelangelo's famous sculpture, which is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 1?

4. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what injury was suffered by the woman who was hit by two bicycles?

5. Which group of people does the author mention in Chapter 1 as willing to show their city to anyone?

(see the answer key)

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