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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As discussed in Chapter 3, who defiled Savonarola's pulpit?
(a) Various Inquisitors.
(b) Il Postino.
(c) Guelph peasants.
(d) The Bad Companions.

2. Which religious sect of medieval Florence was vegetarian and believed that the world was utterly depraved?
(a) The Waldensians.
(b) The Patarenes.
(c) The Reformers.
(d) The Epicureans.

3. Where is Donatello's David?
(a) The Palazzo Strozzi.
(b) The Bargello.
(c) The Baptistery.
(d) The Uffizi.

4. From where did the stone for the Santa Trinita bridge come?
(a) The quarries to the north of the city.
(b) Rome.
(c) The Boboli Garden.
(d) Alexandria.

5. What object did Toscanelli add to the Duomo, as mentioned in Chapter 4?
(a) A gnomon.
(b) A pipe organ.
(c) A metronome.
(d) A spiral staircase.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?

3. Which critic had mistakenly extolled a painting he believed to have been created by Giotto?

4. Where was "The Battle of San Romano" originally housed?

5. Who created the fresco "Universal Deluge"?

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