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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what injury was suffered by the woman who was hit by two bicycles?
(a) Internal bleeding.
(b) A broken arm.
(c) A cracked skull.
(d) Two broken legs.

2. How many arches does the Santa Trinita bridge have?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

4. From where did the Florentines take Donatello's "Judith and Holofernes" before bringing it to the Palazzo Vecchio?
(a) The Medici palace.
(b) Rome.
(c) The Uffizi.
(d) Venice.

5. According to Chapter 1, how much did the piece of masonry that fell from the National Library weigh?
(a) 132 pounds.
(b) 30 pounds.
(c) Approximately 1200 pounds.
(d) 5 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?

3. What is Donatello's statue of John the Baptist as a boy called?

4. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?

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

(see the answer key)

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