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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, who is the only person who can observe Florence well?
(a) The night watchman.
(b) The gatekeeper at the Boboli.
(c) The toddlers in strollers.
(d) The streetsweepers.

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

3. According to Chapter 1, who normally sells the postcards in a Florentine church?
(a) The sacristan.
(b) No one.
(c) The priest.
(d) A nun.

4. Which Florentine church is too far outside Florence for most tourists to visit?
(a) The Duomo.
(b) Santa Trinita.
(c) Santa Maria Novella.
(d) San Miniato.

5. What was the name of Florence's prospective satellite city?
(a) Sorgane.
(b) Piazza della Romana.
(c) Zigurrat.
(d) Sarbane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What structure in the Piazza della Republica celebrates progress?

2. Where is Donatello's David?

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

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

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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