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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was "The Battle of San Romano" originally housed?
(a) The bedroom of Lorenzo de' Medici.
(b) The chambers of Pope Clement VII.
(c) The Uffizi.
(d) The Boboli Garden.

2. What is the name of the river that runs through Florence?
(a) The Riviera.
(b) The Tigris.
(c) The Arno.
(d) The Danube.

3. Of which biblical figure are there two statues in the Duomo?
(a) Noah.
(b) Paul.
(c) Isaiah.
(d) Moses.

4. Who performed the "egg trick" described in Chapter 5?
(a) Brunelleschi.
(b) Pope Clement VII.
(c) Dante.
(d) Donatello.

5. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?
(a) The Mill on the Floss.
(b) Romola.
(c) Silas Marner.
(d) Daniel Deronda.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does the author call "the resident humanist in the Medici household"?

3. What was the first opera?

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

5. What adjective does the author use to describe Venice and Siena in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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