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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote the instructional booklet Della Pittura?
(a) Paolo Uccello.
(b) Leon Battista Alberti.
(c) Toscanelli.
(d) Brunelleschi.

4. Who painted "Stories of Saint Peter and Original Sin"?
(a) Brunelleschi.
(b) Leonardo.
(c) Masaccio.
(d) Andrea del Castagno.

5. Whom does the author call "the resident humanist in the Medici household"?
(a) Poliziano.
(b) Catherine the Great.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Clarice Orsini.

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

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

8. Which artist, mentioned in Chapter 4, was famous for painting dragons?
(a) Uccello.
(b) Piero di Cosimo.
(c) Andrea del Castagno.
(d) Leonardo.

9. What object did Toscanelli add to the Duomo, as mentioned in Chapter 4?
(a) A metronome.
(b) A spiral staircase.
(c) A gnomon.
(d) A pipe organ.

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

11. Where was "The Battle of San Romano" originally housed?
(a) The chambers of Pope Clement VII.
(b) The bedroom of Lorenzo de' Medici.
(c) The Uffizi.
(d) The Boboli Garden.

12. Which novel does the author compare to Dante's Divine Comedy in Chapter 6?
(a) The Sound and the Fury.
(b) The Brothers Karamazov.
(c) Silas Marner.
(d) War and Peace.

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

14. Which artist does the author NOT mention as depicting objects from ordinary life, such as household utensils?
(a) Fra Fillipo.
(b) Gozzoli.
(c) Ghirlandaio.
(d) Leonardo.

15. What artist is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 4?
(a) Van Gogh.
(b) Paolo Uccello.
(c) Ammannati.
(d) Andrea del Castagno.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which artist suffered a broken nose as a child?

2. What was Paolo Uccello's birth name?

3. Which artist had originally attempted a sculpture with the piece of marble that Michelangelo used for the "David"?

4. What famous explorer consulted with Toscanelli?

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

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