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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Buondelmonte de' Buondelmonti, the bridegroom mentioned in Chapter 2, die?
(a) The Boboli.
(b) The Piazza della Republica.
(c) The Uffizi.
(d) The Ponte Vecchio.

3. Who is the person mentioned in Chapter 3 who did not exact revenge from someone he came across on Good Friday?
(a) Cosimo il Vecchio.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Saint Giovanni Gualberto.
(d) Uberti.

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

5. What is the color scheme of the Baptistery?
(a) Pink and brown.
(b) Grey and brown.
(c) Black and white.
(d) Blue and gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?

2. What type of political speech does Chapter 3 describe as occurring frequently in Florence since medieval times?

3. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?

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

5. According to Chapter 1, of what does everyone in Florence complain about?

(see the answer key)

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