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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the author's opinion, the work of which artist achieves Plato's ideal forms?
(a) Brunelleschi.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Ammannati.

2. Where did Buondelmonte de' Buondelmonti, the bridegroom mentioned in Chapter 2, die?
(a) The Piazza della Republica.
(b) The Ponte Vecchio.
(c) The Boboli.
(d) The Uffizi.

3. Which of the following groups of people is not described by the author in Chapter 7 as living in poverty?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Industrialists.
(c) Craftsmen.
(d) Professors.

4. What does the author call "an incubus on its present population"?
(a) The Pieta.
(b) The David.
(c) Historic Florence.
(d) The Ponte Vecchio.

5. Who was the wife of Cosimo I?
(a) Isabella of Venice.
(b) Margaretta di Lorenzi.
(c) Eleanor of Toledo.
(d) Anne Tudor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the fall of the Republic?

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

3. To whom did Petrarch write his love sonnets?

4. Who brought about the Donation of Constantine?

5. Before the mid-1700s, on what day did the Florentine calendar start?

(see the answer key)

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