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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 6, who was the only Florentine diplomat?
(a) Lorenzo de' Medici.
(b) Pope Clement VII.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Cosimo I.

2. What artist is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 4?
(a) Paolo Uccello.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Andrea del Castagno.
(d) Ammannati.

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

4. Where did the feud between the Blacks and the Whites begin?
(a) Athens.
(b) Assisi.
(c) Venice.
(d) Pistoia.

5. Whom does the author call "the first tragic figure, after Brutus, in political history"?
(a) Saint Giovanni Gualberto.
(b) Pope Clement VII.
(c) Ammannati.
(d) Giano della Bella.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?

2. According to Chapter 4, what novel contains a painting as the antagonist?

3. To what character in Greek mythology does the author compare the "Madonna with the Pomegranate"?

4. What Florentine church housed a respected music school in the fourteenth century?

5. What is the title of the hymn that Chapter 6 mentions as having been composed by one of Savonarola's adherents?

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