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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 2?
(a) Donatello.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Catiline.
(d) Mussolini.

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

5. According to Chapter 1, who normally sells the postcards in a Florentine church?
(a) The priest.
(b) A nun.
(c) The sacristan.
(d) No one.

6. Who wrote a sonnet denouncing Pistoia?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Donatello.
(c) Dante.
(d) Michelangelo.

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

8. As mentioned in Chapter 2, who carried Donatello's statue of the Infant Jesus into battle?
(a) Fiorino.
(b) Romulus.
(c) Totila.
(d) Savonarola.

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

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

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

12. What was the name of Florence's prospective satellite city?
(a) Sorgane.
(b) Zigurrat.
(c) Piazza della Romana.
(d) Sarbane.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Florentine art express the concept of infamy?

2. Which group of people most commonly gets robbed in Florence?

3. What is the name of Michelangelo's famous sculpture, which is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 1?

4. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?

5. During a medieval uprising, which group did Michele di Lando lead?

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