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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Florentine church housed a respected music school in the fourteenth century?
(a) Santa Biblia.
(b) Santa Trinita.
(c) Santa Croce.
(d) Santa Maria Novella.

2. When did the Spanish military overthrow the Florentine Republic?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1321.
(c) 1530.
(d) 1844.

3. What disease did the Medicis commonly suffer?
(a) Goiter.
(b) Tetanus.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Gout.

4. Who created the fresco "Universal Deluge"?
(a) Uccello.
(b) Donatello.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Andrea del Castagno.

5. What word did Brunelleschi use to describe the figure of Christ on Donatello's crucifix for Santa Croce?
(a) "Clown."
(b) "Idiot."
(c) "King."
(d) "Self-portrait."

6. Who wrote the poem "Ode to the West Wind"?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Robert Browning.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

7. As mentioned in Chapter 5, who humbled Emperor Henry IV?
(a) Julian of Norwich.
(b) Hildegard of Bingen.
(c) Catherine of Siena.
(d) Countess Matilda of Tuscany.

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

9. Which artist suffered a broken nose as a child?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Fra Fillipo Lippi.
(c) Masolino.
(d) Leonardo.

10. According to the author, Florence shares "simplicity of life" with which city?
(a) Venice.
(b) Boston.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Athens.

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

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

13. How many popes consulted Michelangelo, according to Chapter 5?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

14. As mentioned in Chapter 5, who was born the year Michelangelo died?
(a) Saint Francis.
(b) Dante.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject of Savonarola's preaching does the author mention in Chapter 4?

2. According to Chapter 6, what are the two extreme images in Florentine painting?

3. Who painted the "Primavera" that is discussed in Chapter 6?

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, what artistic idea did the Venetians learn from the Florentines?

5. According to Chapter 4, what object is frequently found in the center of Florentine paintings of the Annunciation?

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