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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what injury was suffered by the woman who was hit by two bicycles?
(a) Internal bleeding.
(b) A cracked skull.
(c) A broken arm.
(d) Two broken legs.

2. When did the battle of Pistoria take place?
(a) 62 B.C.
(b) 722 B.C.
(c) 1 B.C.
(d) A.D. 66.

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

4. Which Florentine church is too far outside Florence for most tourists to visit?
(a) The Duomo.
(b) San Miniato.
(c) Santa Maria Novella.
(d) Santa Trinita.

5. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?
(a) Jewish astronomers.
(b) Greek scholars.
(c) Roman soldiers.
(d) Venetian nobility.

6. As discussed in Chapter 3, what caused the civic unrest in medieval Florence?
(a) Ambition and envy.
(b) The heavy taxes Rome imposed.
(c) Pride.
(d) The fight for liberty against tyranny.

7. As mentioned in the end of Chapter 3, how long was medieval Florence at peace from political unrest?
(a) Six years.
(b) One hundred years.
(c) One year.
(d) Ten years.

8. According to the information provided in the first paragraph of Chapter 2, who attacked Fiesole?
(a) Fiorino.
(b) Attila the Hun.
(c) Charlemagne.
(d) Hannibal.

9. What church houses art that memorializes the quashing of the Patarenes?
(a) Santa Maria Novella.
(b) The Duomo.
(c) Santa Croce.
(d) San Frediano.

10. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?
(a) Catherine of Siena.
(b) Beatrice.
(c) Augustine.
(d) Ambrose.

11. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Groups of townspeople.
(c) Universities.
(d) Popes.

12. As represented in the statue at the Bargello, what weapon does Saint George conspicuously not carry?
(a) A dagger.
(b) A whip.
(c) A sword.
(d) A quarterstaff.

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

14. What was the height limit of medieval Florentine towers?
(a) Two hundred feet.
(b) Ninety-six feet.
(c) Fifty meters.
(d) One hundred meters.

15. Who brought about the Donation of Constantine?
(a) Tertullian.
(b) Saint Sylvester.
(c) Gregory the Great.
(d) Constantine.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the statues that decorated the Santa Trinita bridge sculpted?

2. Which character from Dante's Inferno is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 3?

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

4. As mentioned in Chapter 2, who carried Donatello's statue of the Infant Jesus into battle?

5. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?

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