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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was directly outside the boundaries of ancient Florence?
(a) A moat.
(b) A cemetery.
(c) An amphitheater.
(d) An open sewer.

2. What was the height limit of medieval Florentine towers?
(a) Two hundred feet.
(b) Fifty meters.
(c) Ninety-six feet.
(d) One hundred meters.

3. According to Chapter 6, what color is prominent in the paintings of the "springtime painters"?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Gold.

4. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?
(a) The Shelleys.
(b) Keats and Wordsworth.
(c) Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams.
(d) The Brownings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 2, who carried Donatello's statue of the Infant Jesus into battle?

2. What word did Brunelleschi use to describe the figure of Christ on Donatello's crucifix for Santa Croce?

3. In Chapter 3, to which city is modern Florence contrasted in order to show the difference between Guelph and Ghibelline?

4. As mentioned in Chapter 5, who was born the year Michelangelo died?

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

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