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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did the feud between the Blacks and the Whites begin?
(a) Assisi.
(b) Athens.
(c) Pistoia.
(d) Venice.

3. As mentioned at the end of Chapter 1, who hid in the German Institute during World War II?
(a) Nazis.
(b) Anti-Nazis.
(c) Fascists.
(d) Communists.

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

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

6. According to Chapter 1, of what does everyone in Florence complain about?
(a) The noise.
(b) The smell.
(c) The weather.
(d) The tourists.

7. What was directly outside the boundaries of ancient Florence?
(a) An open sewer.
(b) A cemetery.
(c) An amphitheater.
(d) A moat.

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

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

10. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?
(a) Romulus.
(b) Helen of Troy.
(c) Remus.
(d) The Minotaur.

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

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

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

14. What is the name of Michelangelo's famous sculpture, which is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 1?
(a) Moses.
(b) David.
(c) The Trinity.
(d) The Pieta.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brought about the Donation of Constantine?

2. Whom does the author call "the first tragic figure, after Brutus, in political history"?

3. What is the name of the river that runs through Florence?

4. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?

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

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