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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What day is market day in Florence?
(a) Friday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Tuesday.

2. What is the object that is most frequently stolen in Florence?
(a) Passport.
(b) Camera.
(c) Bicycle.
(d) Wallet.

3. Under whose leadership were the Patarenes quashed?
(a) Saint Peter Martyr.
(b) Pope Stephen II.
(c) Saint Benedict.
(d) Martin Luther.

4. Who wrote an exaggerated biography of Castruccio Castracane?
(a) Plutarch.
(b) Bonaventure.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Dante.

5. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?
(a) Ugo of Tuscany.
(b) Saint Francis.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Gregory the Great.

6. What structure in the Piazza della Republica celebrates progress?
(a) The triumphal arch.
(b) The statue of Pope Pius IX.
(c) The statue of a galloping horse.
(d) The bridge over the canal.

7. Which character from Dante's Inferno is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 3?
(a) Cosimo I.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Vanni Fucci.

8. According to the author, who is the only person who can observe Florence well?
(a) The toddlers in strollers.
(b) The night watchman.
(c) The gatekeeper at the Boboli.
(d) The streetsweepers.

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

10. What was the home of the Roman governor called?
(a) The Sanhedrin.
(b) The praetorium.
(c) The Piazza del Campidoglio.
(d) The Piazza del Gubernador.

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

12. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?
(a) Farinata.
(b) Cosimo I.
(c) Catiline.
(d) Machiavelli.

13. In Chapter 3, to which city is modern Florence contrasted in order to show the difference between Guelph and Ghibelline?
(a) Vicenza.
(b) Siena.
(c) Rome.
(d) Venice.

14. In what year did a flood destroy the Marzocco?
(a) 72 B.C.
(b) 1921.
(c) 641.
(d) 1333.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Donatello's statue of John the Baptist as a boy called?

2. Who wrote a sonnet denouncing Pistoia?

3. What color of marble is not found in the Florentine hills?

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

5. As represented in the statue at the Bargello, what weapon does Saint George conspicuously not carry?

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