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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?
(a) The Shelleys.
(b) Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams.
(c) The Brownings.
(d) Keats and Wordsworth.

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

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

5. Under what medieval Florentine laws could a supposed political dissenter be convicted without evidence?
(a) The Via della Gloriosa.
(b) The Ordinances of Justice.
(c) The Laws of Loyalty.
(d) The Pax Romana.

6. According to Chapter 1, how much did the piece of masonry that fell from the National Library weigh?
(a) 132 pounds.
(b) 30 pounds.
(c) Approximately 1200 pounds.
(d) 5 pounds.

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

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

9. Who is the person mentioned in Chapter 3 who did not exact revenge from someone he came across on Good Friday?
(a) Cosimo il Vecchio.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Uberti.
(d) Saint Giovanni Gualberto.

10. What does the author call "an incubus on its present population"?
(a) The Ponte Vecchio.
(b) The Pieta.
(c) Historic Florence.
(d) The David.

11. 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.

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

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

14. Which group of people most commonly gets robbed in Florence?
(a) Italians.
(b) Germans and Swedes.
(c) Americans.
(d) Greeks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the wife of Cosimo I?

2. Who is described as the "ideally self-interested despot"?

3. In what period did grotesquerie begin to become present in Florentine art?

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

5. In what year did a flood destroy the Marzocco?

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