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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what period did grotesquerie begin to become present in Florentine art?
(a) The Middle Ages.
(b) The Romantic period.
(c) The Enlightment.
(d) The Renaissance.

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

3. Which religious sect of medieval Florence was vegetarian and believed that the world was utterly depraved?
(a) The Epicureans.
(b) The Patarenes.
(c) The Waldensians.
(d) The Reformers.

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. What type of political speech does Chapter 3 describe as occurring frequently in Florence since medieval times?
(a) Mudslinging.
(b) Elegiac.
(c) Harangue.
(d) Filibuster.

Short Answer Questions

1. What church houses art that memorializes the quashing of the Patarenes?

2. In Chapter 3, to which city is modern Florence contrasted in order to show the difference between Guelph and Ghibelline?

3. According to the medieval conception of Florence, which city is Florence's mother?

4. Who wrote an exaggerated biography of Castruccio Castracane?

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

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