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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which group of people does the author mention in Chapter 1 as willing to show their city to anyone?
(a) Romans.
(b) Florentines.
(c) Parisians.
(d) Venetians.

2. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?
(a) The Shelleys.
(b) Keats and Wordsworth.
(c) Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams.
(d) The Brownings.

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

4. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?
(a) The Mill on the Floss.
(b) Daniel Deronda.
(c) Silas Marner.
(d) Romola.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the object that is most frequently stolen in Florence?

3. According to Chapter 1, if you are lost in Florence, whom should you ask for directions?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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