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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) Various Inquisitors.
(b) Il Postino.
(c) Guelph peasants.
(d) The Bad Companions.

2. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?
(a) Beccadelli.
(b) Daniel DeFoe.
(c) Dante.
(d) Donatello.

3. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?
(a) Donatello.
(b) Pope Clement VII.
(c) Cosimo il Vecchio.
(d) Savonarola.

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

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

6. Which church does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "half a grain depot to be used in case of emergency, siege, or famine"?
(a) Santa Croce.
(b) The Bargello.
(c) Orsanmichele.
(d) The Duomo.

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

8. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Cosimo I.
(c) Catiline.
(d) Farinata.

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

10. What is the name of Michelangelo's famous sculpture, which is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 1?
(a) The Pieta.
(b) David.
(c) The Trinity.
(d) Moses.

11. 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.

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

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

14. To what city is Florence compared in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) New York.
(b) Boston.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) London.

15. Who is described as the "ideally self-interested despot"?
(a) Don Quixote.
(b) Machiavelli's Prince.
(c) Mussolini.
(d) Michelangelo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of people does the author mention in Chapter 1 as willing to show their city to anyone?

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

3. From where did the stone for the Santa Trinita bridge come?

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

5. When were the statues that decorated the Santa Trinita bridge sculpted?

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