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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What subject of Savonarola's preaching does the author mention in Chapter 4?
(a) The resurrection.
(b) Noah's Ark.
(c) Atonement.
(d) The Exodus.

2. Which famous Florentine statue no longer has a head?
(a) Primavera.
(b) La Dama del Alba.
(c) David.
(d) Dawn.

3. Who painted "Stories of Saint Peter and Original Sin"?
(a) Brunelleschi.
(b) Andrea del Castagno.
(c) Masaccio.
(d) Leonardo.

4. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?
(a) Pope Clement VII.
(b) Cosimo il Vecchio.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Savonarola.

5. Which church does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "half a grain depot to be used in case of emergency, siege, or famine"?
(a) Santa Croce.
(b) The Duomo.
(c) The Bargello.
(d) Orsanmichele.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which quality of the Florentines is "as proverbial as their avarice," according to Chapter 7?

3. What day is market day in Florence?

4. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?

5. Who performed the "egg trick" described in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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