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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 4, what novel contains a painting as the antagonist?
(a) Finnegan's Wake.
(b) Gravity's Rainbow.
(c) The Picture of Dorian Grey.
(d) The Sound and the Fury.

2. What is the bird of Florence?
(a) A crow.
(b) A bluebird.
(c) A sparrow.
(d) A swallow.

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

4. Which fresco, created by Uccello, does the author consider to be "an example of Florentine avarice"?
(a) "The Creation of Eve and the Fall."
(b) Historie Fiorentine.
(c) "The Battle of San Romano."
(d) The monument of Sir John Hawkwood.

5. Who eventually renounced his nude sculpture "Neptune"?
(a) Andrea del Castagno.
(b) Donatello.
(c) Ammannati.
(d) Michelangelo.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 6, what are the two extreme images in Florentine painting?

2. Who wrote a biography of Lorenzo de' Medici?

3. As mentioned in Chapter 3, what does the surname "Bevisangue" mean?

4. Which Florentine church is too far outside Florence for most tourists to visit?

5. According to the author's opinion as stated in Chapter 1, Italians are not what?

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