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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 Renaissance.
(b) The Middle Ages.
(c) The Romantic period.
(d) The Enlightment.

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

3. What color of marble is not found in the Florentine hills?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Rose.
(d) Grey.

4. Who was the first Florentine Christian martyr?
(a) San Miniato.
(b) San Fernando.
(c) Saint Stephen.
(d) San Juan de la Cruz.

5. In Chapter 3, to which city is modern Florence contrasted in order to show the difference between Guelph and Ghibelline?
(a) Siena.
(b) Vicenza.
(c) Rome.
(d) Venice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What buildings in rural Tuscany survived the medieval wars between the nobility and the people?

2. What is in the middle of the main piazza of Florence?

3. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?

4. As discussed in Chapter 3, what caused the civic unrest in medieval Florence?

5. What was the height limit of medieval Florentine towers?

(see the answer key)

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