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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the home of the Roman governor called?
(a) The Sanhedrin.
(b) The Piazza del Campidoglio.
(c) The praetorium.
(d) The Piazza del Gubernador.

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

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

5. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?
(a) The Minotaur.
(b) Romulus.
(c) Remus.
(d) Helen of Troy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is in the middle of the main piazza of Florence?

3. As mentioned at the end of Chapter 1, who hid in the German Institute during World War II?

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

5. Which church does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "half a grain depot to be used in case of emergency, siege, or famine"?

(see the answer key)

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