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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From where did the Florentines take Donatello's "Judith and Holofernes" before bringing it to the Palazzo Vecchio?
(a) Venice.
(b) The Uffizi.
(c) The Medici palace.
(d) Rome.

3. As mentioned in Chapter 2, who carried Donatello's statue of the Infant Jesus into battle?
(a) Totila.
(b) Savonarola.
(c) Romulus.
(d) Fiorino.

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

5. As Chapter 2 mentions, what place in Florence "resembles a petrified forest"?
(a) Michelangelo's studio.
(b) The basement of the Duomo.
(c) The tomb of San Miniato.
(d) The butterfly garden at the Boboli.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 1, who normally sells the postcards in a Florentine church?

2. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what injury was suffered by the woman who was hit by two bicycles?

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

4. Who is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 2?

5. When did the battle of Pistoria take place?

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