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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who eventually renounced his nude sculpture "Neptune"?
(a) Ammannati.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Andrea del Castagno.

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

3. What was directly outside the boundaries of ancient Florence?
(a) An amphitheater.
(b) A cemetery.
(c) An open sewer.
(d) A moat.

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

5. What was the height limit of medieval Florentine towers?
(a) Two hundred feet.
(b) One hundred meters.
(c) Ninety-six feet.
(d) Fifty meters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does the author use to describe Venice and Siena in Chapter 1?

2. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?

3. As mentioned in the end of Chapter 3, how long was medieval Florence at peace from political unrest?

4. What structure in the Piazza della Republica celebrates progress?

5. Whom does the author call "the first tragic figure, after Brutus, in political history"?

(see the answer key)

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