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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, of what does everyone in Florence complain about?
(a) The smell.
(b) The weather.
(c) The noise.
(d) The tourists.

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

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

4. What is Donatello's statue of John the Baptist as a boy called?
(a) San Giovanni ante Baptiste.
(b) San Giovannino.
(c) The Voice in the Wilderness.
(d) Little John.

5. According to Chapter 1, if you are lost in Florence, whom should you ask for directions?
(a) The guard at the Boboli.
(b) A policeman.
(c) Any passerby.
(d) A server at any restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 2, who carried Donatello's statue of the Infant Jesus into battle?

2. What day is market day in Florence?

3. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?

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

5. From where did the Florentines take Donatello's "Judith and Holofernes" before bringing it to the Palazzo Vecchio?

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