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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first opera?
(a) La Traviatta.
(b) La Boheme.
(c) Eurydice.
(d) The Magic Flute.

2. What was Paolo Uccello's birth name?
(a) Paolo Fernandi.
(b) Paolo di Dono.
(c) Paolo di Medici.
(d) Paolo di Coppola.

3. Who painted the "Primavera" that is discussed in Chapter 6?
(a) Botticelli.
(b) Fra Angelico.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Ammannati.

4. The artist mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 4 is puzzling over what subject?
(a) Form.
(b) Balance.
(c) Line.
(d) Perspective.

5. With whom did Donatello live?
(a) His sister.
(b) The Medici family.
(c) Brunelleschi.
(d) His mother.

6. According to the author, what building exceeds the Duomo in size and beauty?
(a) The Parthenon.
(b) Westminster Abbey.
(c) The library of Alexandria.
(d) Saint Peter's Cathedral.

7. In what work does Milton mention Florence three times?
(a) Samson Agonistes.
(b) Paradise Regained.
(c) Paradise Lost.
(d) Areopagitica.

8. What was the nickname for people who followed Savonarola?
(a) Piagnone.
(b) Pietone.
(c) Mascarpone.
(d) Corleone.

9. According to Chapter 6, what are the two extreme images in Florentine painting?
(a) The Crucifixion and the Resurrection.
(b) The Flood and the Resurrection.
(c) The Crucifixion and the Annunciation.
(d) The Fall and the Nativity.

10. Which Florentine does the author describe as a "zoophile"?
(a) Ammannati.
(b) Uccello.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Brunelleschi.

11. According to Chapter 4, what was the first major literary work written in Italian?
(a) Daniel DeFoe.
(b) The Divine Comedy.
(c) Faustus.
(d) Bella Divina.

12. Which fresco, created by Uccello, does the author consider to be "an example of Florentine avarice"?
(a) "The Creation of Eve and the Fall."
(b) The monument of Sir John Hawkwood.
(c) Historie Fiorentine.
(d) "The Battle of San Romano."

13. Which artist had originally attempted a sculpture with the piece of marble that Michelangelo used for the "David"?
(a) Agostino di Duccio.
(b) Donatello.
(c) Brunelleschi.
(d) Ammannati.

14. What church replaced the Santa Reparata?
(a) The Duomo.
(b) Santa Trinita.
(c) Santissima Annunziata.
(d) Santa Croce.

15. According to information provided in Chapter 4, which artist was posthumously considered to be "a devil"?
(a) Titian.
(b) Donatello.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Andrea del Castagno.

Short Answer Questions

1. What museum in Florence does the author call "a picture gallery" in Chapter 4?

2. According to Chapter 6, what color is prominent in the paintings of the "springtime painters"?

3. Who painted the Virgin Mary's head in the fresco of the Annunciation at the church Santissima Annunziata?

4. Which novel does the author compare to Dante's Divine Comedy in Chapter 6?

5. According to the information provided in Chapter 5, what did the palaces used to sell to the people?

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