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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) The Shelleys.
(b) Keats and Wordsworth.
(c) The Brownings.
(d) Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams.

2. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?
(a) Groups of townspeople.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Popes.
(d) Universities.

3. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?
(a) Beatrice.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Catherine of Siena.
(d) Ambrose.

4. What church houses art that memorializes the quashing of the Patarenes?
(a) The Duomo.
(b) San Frediano.
(c) Santa Croce.
(d) Santa Maria Novella.

5. What buildings in rural Tuscany survived the medieval wars between the nobility and the people?
(a) Palaces.
(b) Libraries.
(c) Inns.
(d) Convents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of people does the author mention in Chapter 1 as willing to show their city to anyone?

2. What is the name of the river that runs through Florence?

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

4. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?

5. Under whose leadership were the Patarenes quashed?

(see the answer key)

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