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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 1, who normally sells the postcards in a Florentine church?
(a) The priest.
(b) The sacristan.
(c) No one.
(d) A nun.

2. 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) Venice.
(d) The Uffizi.

3. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?
(a) Venetian nobility.
(b) Jewish astronomers.
(c) Greek scholars.
(d) Roman soldiers.

4. From where did the stone for the Santa Trinita bridge come?
(a) The Boboli Garden.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Rome.
(d) The quarries to the north of the city.

5. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?
(a) The Shelleys.
(b) Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams.
(c) The Brownings.
(d) Keats and Wordsworth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Buondelmonte de' Buondelmonti, the bridegroom mentioned in Chapter 2, die?

2. Which famous Florentine statue no longer has a head?

3. According to the author, who is the only person who can observe Florence well?

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

5. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?

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