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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 1, if you are lost in Florence, whom should you ask for directions?
(a) A server at any restaurant.
(b) Any passerby.
(c) The guard at the Boboli.
(d) A policeman.

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

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

4. Which group of people does the author mention in Chapter 1 as willing to show their city to anyone?
(a) Venetians.
(b) Florentines.
(c) Romans.
(d) Parisians.

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

6. Which religious sect of medieval Florence was vegetarian and believed that the world was utterly depraved?
(a) The Waldensians.
(b) The Reformers.
(c) The Epicureans.
(d) The Patarenes.

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

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

9. What is the main road between Siena and Rome?
(a) The Via Romana.
(b) Highway 375.
(c) The Autobahn.
(d) The Via Florentina.

10. As Chapter 2 mentions, what place in Florence "resembles a petrified forest"?
(a) The basement of the Duomo.
(b) The tomb of San Miniato.
(c) The butterfly garden at the Boboli.
(d) Michelangelo's studio.

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

12. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?
(a) Daniel Deronda.
(b) The Mill on the Floss.
(c) Silas Marner.
(d) Romola.

13. What adjective does the author use to describe Venice and Siena in Chapter 1?
(a) Feminine.
(b) Suave.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Modern.

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

15. As mentioned in Chapter 3, what does the surname "Bevisangue" mean?
(a) "Blood-drinker."
(b) "Goldenhearted."
(c) "Ruthless."
(d) "Cold-blooded."

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?

2. Which church does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "half a grain depot to be used in case of emergency, siege, or famine"?

3. According to the medieval conception of Florence, which city is Florence's mother?

4. What was the height limit of medieval Florentine towers?

5. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?

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