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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in the middle of the main piazza of Florence?
(a) A statue commemorating Pope Clement VII.
(b) A huge fountain.
(c) A parking lot.
(d) A restaurant with a great deal of outdoor seating.

2. Whom does the author call "the first tragic figure, after Brutus, in political history"?
(a) Pope Clement VII.
(b) Saint Giovanni Gualberto.
(c) Giano della Bella.
(d) Ammannati.

3. What was the function of medieval towers?
(a) Guest space.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Storage.
(d) Self-defense.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous Florentine statue no longer has a head?

2. Who wrote an exaggerated biography of Castruccio Castracane?

3. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?

4. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?

5. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the ways in which Florence and Rome are related.

2. Why is sculpture part of "the very fabric of the city" of Florence, as the author asserts in Chapter 2?

3. Describe Michelangelo's personality.

4. Explain the word "harangue" and its presence in the lives of the Florentine people.

5. How did the Medici tombs appear in the public consciousness of Florence in the twentieth century?

6. Name some of the theories concerning where the head of "Primavera" ended up after the Santa Trinita Bridge was blown up during World War II.

7. Where is the religious imagery in the city kept, and what does that imagery depict?

8. Describe what happens to tourists who enter a church to look at the paintings.

9. Why is the noise of Florence such a problem? What have been some of the proposals to solve it?

10. How did Pope Clement VII break with Florentine tradition? Explain.

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