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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose favorite artistic medium was terra verde?
(a) Leonardo.
(b) Bocaccio.
(c) Paolo Uccello.
(d) Botticelli.

2. According to popular opinion as mentioned by the author in Chapter 4, who is the person represented in the center of "Universal Deluge"?
(a) Moses.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) Dante.
(d) Noah.

3. Before the mid-1700s, on what day did the Florentine calendar start?
(a) March 25.
(b) April 1.
(c) December 25.
(d) January 1.

4. When were the statues that decorated the Santa Trinita bridge sculpted?
(a) Approximately 70 B.C.
(b) The 1500s.
(c) The 1700s.
(d) The 1100s.

5. In Chapter 3, to which city is modern Florence contrasted in order to show the difference between Guelph and Ghibelline?
(a) Rome.
(b) Venice.
(c) Siena.
(d) Vicenza.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city is Florence compared in the beginning of Chapter 1?

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

3. What artist is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 4?

4. According to Chapter 5, what is the main characteristic of Florentine art?

5. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?

(see the answer key)

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