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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 parking lot.
(c) A huge fountain.
(d) A restaurant with a great deal of outdoor seating.

2. In what period did grotesquerie begin to become present in Florentine art?
(a) The Enlightment.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Middle Ages.
(d) The Romantic period.

3. What was the name of Florence's prospective satellite city?
(a) Piazza della Romana.
(b) Zigurrat.
(c) Sarbane.
(d) Sorgane.

4. Which group of people most commonly gets robbed in Florence?
(a) Greeks.
(b) Germans and Swedes.
(c) Americans.
(d) Italians.

5. As mentioned in Chapter 2, who carried Donatello's statue of the Infant Jesus into battle?
(a) Romulus.
(b) Totila.
(c) Fiorino.
(d) Savonarola.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?

2. How did Florentine art express the concept of infamy?

3. As mentioned in the end of Chapter 3, how long was medieval Florence at peace from political unrest?

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

5. Who was the first Florentine Christian martyr?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the typical interior and exterior of Florence palaces.

2. Why does the author describe Florence as a "manly town" in Chapter 1?

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

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

5. Summarize the story of the founding of Florence, as discussed in the beginning of Chapter 2.

6. Describe the statue of Neptune in the fountain of the Piazza della Signoria.

7. Describe the weather in Florence in summer.

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

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

10. Describe the architectural difference between Guelph and Ghibelline cities.

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