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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Donatello's David?
(a) The Bargello.
(b) The Baptistery.
(c) The Uffizi.
(d) The Palazzo Strozzi.

2. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?
(a) Saint Francis.
(b) Ugo of Tuscany.
(c) Gregory the Great.
(d) Michelangelo.

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

4. When were the statues that decorated the Santa Trinita bridge sculpted?
(a) The 1100s.
(b) The 1500s.
(c) The 1700s.
(d) Approximately 70 B.C.

5. 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) Merchants.
(d) Popes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What day is market day in Florence?

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

3. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?

4. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?

5. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?

(see the answer key)

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