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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the medieval conception of Florence, which city is Florence's mother?
(a) Constantinople.
(b) Athens.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Rome.

2. How did Florentine art express the concept of infamy?
(a) Through fresco.
(b) Through pen and ink drawings.
(c) Through bas relief sculpture.
(d) Through painting.

3. During a medieval uprising, which group did Michele di Lando lead?
(a) The cobblers.
(b) The landed gentry.
(c) The wool-carders.
(d) The sculptors.

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

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

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

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

8. According to the information provided in the first paragraph of Chapter 2, who attacked Fiesole?
(a) Fiorino.
(b) Attila the Hun.
(c) Hannibal.
(d) Charlemagne.

9. How many arches does the Santa Trinita bridge have?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

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

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

12. From where did the Florentines take Donatello's "Judith and Holofernes" before bringing it to the Palazzo Vecchio?
(a) Rome.
(b) Venice.
(c) The Uffizi.
(d) The Medici palace.

13. Before the mid-1700s, on what day did the Florentine calendar start?
(a) April 1.
(b) December 25.
(c) March 25.
(d) January 1.

14. What was the height limit of medieval Florentine towers?
(a) One hundred meters.
(b) Two hundred feet.
(c) Ninety-six feet.
(d) Fifty meters.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the function of medieval towers?

3. To what city is Florence compared in the beginning of Chapter 1?

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

5. Who wrote a sonnet denouncing Pistoia?

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