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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What structure in the Piazza della Republica celebrates progress?
(a) The statue of Pope Pius IX.
(b) The triumphal arch.
(c) The statue of a galloping horse.
(d) The bridge over the canal.

2. What is the name of Michelangelo's famous sculpture, which is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 1?
(a) Moses.
(b) David.
(c) The Pieta.
(d) The Trinity.

3. Where did the feud between the Blacks and the Whites begin?
(a) Athens.
(b) Venice.
(c) Assisi.
(d) Pistoia.

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

5. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?
(a) Universities.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Groups of townspeople.
(d) Popes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted "Stories of Saint Peter and Original Sin"?

2. Where did Buondelmonte de' Buondelmonti, the bridegroom mentioned in Chapter 2, die?

3. According to Chapter 1, who normally sells the postcards in a Florentine church?

4. What was directly outside the boundaries of ancient Florence?

5. Who brought about the Donation of Constantine?

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