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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the first Florentine Christian martyr?
(a) San Fernando.
(b) San Miniato.
(c) San Juan de la Cruz.
(d) Saint Stephen.

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

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

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

6. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?
(a) Universities.
(b) Popes.
(c) Groups of townspeople.
(d) Merchants.

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

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

9. What type of political speech does Chapter 3 describe as occurring frequently in Florence since medieval times?
(a) Harangue.
(b) Mudslinging.
(c) Elegiac.
(d) Filibuster.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under whose leadership were the Patarenes quashed?

2. What is in the middle of the main piazza of Florence?

3. Who eventually renounced his nude sculpture "Neptune"?

4. What is the bird of Florence?

5. What color of marble is not found in the Florentine hills?

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