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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which famous Florentine statue no longer has a head?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Primavera.
(c) David.
(d) La Dama del Alba.

3. Who is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 2?
(a) Catiline.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Mussolini.
(d) Donatello.

4. What is the main road between Siena and Rome?
(a) The Via Romana.
(b) The Via Florentina.
(c) The Autobahn.
(d) Highway 375.

5. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?
(a) Cosimo I.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Farinata.
(d) Catiline.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the wife of Cosimo I?

2. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?

3. What is the object that is most frequently stolen in Florence?

4. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?

5. As discussed in Chapter 3, who defiled Savonarola's pulpit?

(see the answer key)

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