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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. Which character from Dante's Inferno is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 3?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Cosimo I.
(c) Vanni Fucci.
(d) Virgil.

2. What structure in the Piazza della Republica celebrates progress?
(a) The bridge over the canal.
(b) The statue of a galloping horse.
(c) The statue of Pope Pius IX.
(d) The triumphal arch.

3. According to Chapter 1, if you are lost in Florence, whom should you ask for directions?
(a) Any passerby.
(b) A server at any restaurant.
(c) The guard at the Boboli.
(d) A policeman.

4. What was directly outside the boundaries of ancient Florence?
(a) An amphitheater.
(b) A cemetery.
(c) A moat.
(d) An open sewer.

5. How did Florentine art express the concept of infamy?
(a) Through bas relief sculpture.
(b) Through fresco.
(c) Through painting.
(d) Through pen and ink drawings.

Short Answer Questions

1. As represented in the statue at the Bargello, what weapon does Saint George conspicuously not carry?

2. What is the object that is most frequently stolen in Florence?

3. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?

4. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?

5. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Chapter 1, what is the tourist's reaction to Florence? Why?

2. Why does the author describe Florence in Chapter 1 as a "city of extremes"?

3. Describe the weather in Florence in summer.

4. Describe Michelangelo's personality.

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

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

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

8. Describe the medieval nobility's behavior in medieval Florence, as discussed in Chapter 3.

9. What is the typical behavior of Florentines towards tourists in restaurants?

10. What did Saint Peter Martyr do that dramatically affected Florence?

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