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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Catherine of Siena.
(c) Beatrice.
(d) Ambrose.

3. According to Chapter 1, if you are lost in Florence, whom should you ask for directions?
(a) A policeman.
(b) The guard at the Boboli.
(c) Any passerby.
(d) A server at any restaurant.

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

5. What day is market day in Florence?
(a) Friday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Saturday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does the author use to describe Venice and Siena in Chapter 1?

2. According to Chapter 1, who normally sells the postcards in a Florentine church?

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

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

5. Which group of people most commonly gets robbed in Florence?

(see the answer key)

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