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

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?

2. As mentioned at the end of Chapter 1, who hid in the German Institute during World War II?

3. According to the author's opinion as stated in Chapter 1, Italians are not what?

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

5. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?

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