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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) Andrea del Castagno.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Ammannati.
(d) Donatello.

2. What does the author call "an incubus on its present population"?
(a) The Pieta.
(b) The Ponte Vecchio.
(c) The David.
(d) Historic Florence.

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

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

5. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?
(a) Greek scholars.
(b) Roman soldiers.
(c) Venetian nobility.
(d) Jewish astronomers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?

2. What is the name of Michelangelo's famous sculpture, which is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 1?

3. Which religious sect of medieval Florence was vegetarian and believed that the world was utterly depraved?

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

5. What was the function of medieval towers?

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