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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character from Dante's Inferno is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 3?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Vanni Fucci.
(d) Cosimo I.

2. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?
(a) Savonarola.
(b) Donatello.
(c) Pope Clement VII.
(d) Cosimo il Vecchio.

3. Who brought about the Donation of Constantine?
(a) Tertullian.
(b) Gregory the Great.
(c) Constantine.
(d) Saint Sylvester.

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

5. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?
(a) Dante.
(b) Daniel DeFoe.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Beccadelli.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Under what medieval Florentine laws could a supposed political dissenter be convicted without evidence?

4. What is the object that is most frequently stolen in Florence?

5. According to Chapter 1, how much did the piece of masonry that fell from the National Library weigh?

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