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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what city is Florence compared in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) New York.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) London.
(d) Boston.

3. Who is the patron saint of Florence?
(a) Saint John the Baptist.
(b) Saint Cecilia.
(c) Saint Augustine.
(d) Saint Jerome.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is described as the "ideally self-interested despot"?

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

4. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?

5. What was the name of Florence's prospective satellite city?

(see the answer key)

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