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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. As discussed in Chapter 3, who defiled Savonarola's pulpit?
(a) Il Postino.
(b) Guelph peasants.
(c) Various Inquisitors.
(d) The Bad Companions.

5. 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) Machiavelli.
(d) Catiline.

6. What was the function of medieval towers?
(a) Storage.
(b) Guest space.
(c) Aesthetics.
(d) Self-defense.

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

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

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

10. What buildings in rural Tuscany survived the medieval wars between the nobility and the people?
(a) Libraries.
(b) Palaces.
(c) Inns.
(d) Convents.

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

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

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

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

15. What does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "a stone hypodermic needle"?
(a) The steeple of Santa Croce.
(b) The memorial to Michelangelo.
(c) The tower of Palazzo Vecchio.
(d) The lightning rod on the triumphal arch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Before the mid-1700s, on what day did the Florentine calendar start?

3. What was the name of Florence's prospective satellite city?

4. Under what medieval Florentine laws could a supposed political dissenter be convicted without evidence?

5. Which religious sect of medieval Florence was vegetarian and believed that the world was utterly depraved?

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