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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which artist had originally attempted a sculpture with the piece of marble that Michelangelo used for the "David"?
(a) Agostino di Duccio.
(b) Ammannati.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Brunelleschi.

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

4. Where did Buondelmonte de' Buondelmonti, the bridegroom mentioned in Chapter 2, die?
(a) The Piazza della Republica.
(b) The Ponte Vecchio.
(c) The Boboli.
(d) The Uffizi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the middle of the main piazza of Florence?

2. What was the function of medieval towers?

3. What church replaced the Santa Reparata?

4. According to the author, what building exceeds the Duomo in size and beauty?

5. The artist mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 4 is puzzling over what subject?

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