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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?
(a) Universities.
(b) Groups of townspeople.
(c) Popes.
(d) Merchants.

2. How did Florentine art express the concept of infamy?
(a) Through pen and ink drawings.
(b) Through fresco.
(c) Through bas relief sculpture.
(d) Through painting.

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

4. What was directly outside the boundaries of ancient Florence?
(a) A cemetery.
(b) A moat.
(c) An amphitheater.
(d) An open sewer.

5. According to the author's opinion as stated in Chapter 1, Italians are not what?
(a) "Civic-minded."
(b) "Fastidiously religious."
(c) "Willing to sit in traffic."
(d) "Accustomed to fast food."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?

3. As Chapter 2 mentions, what place in Florence "resembles a petrified forest"?

4. In what year did a flood destroy the Marzocco?

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

(see the answer key)

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