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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where did the stone for the Santa Trinita bridge come?
(a) Rome.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) The quarries to the north of the city.
(d) The Boboli Garden.

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

3. In what period did grotesquerie begin to become present in Florentine art?
(a) The Middle Ages.
(b) The Romantic period.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The Enlightment.

4. Which group of people most commonly gets robbed in Florence?
(a) Italians.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Americans.
(d) Germans and Swedes.

5. Who was the wife of Cosimo I?
(a) Isabella of Venice.
(b) Anne Tudor.
(c) Margaretta di Lorenzi.
(d) Eleanor of Toledo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what medieval Florentine laws could a supposed political dissenter be convicted without evidence?

2. Which artist, mentioned in Chapter 4, was famous for painting dragons?

3. Who was the first Florentine Christian martyr?

4. As represented in the statue at the Bargello, what weapon does Saint George conspicuously not carry?

5. Who created the Pazzi Chapel?

(see the answer key)

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