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

2. When were the statues that decorated the Santa Trinita bridge sculpted?
(a) The 1700s.
(b) The 1100s.
(c) Approximately 70 B.C.
(d) The 1500s.

3. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?
(a) Ambrose.
(b) Beatrice.
(c) Augustine.
(d) Catherine of Siena.

4. According to Chapter 1, who normally sells the postcards in a Florentine church?
(a) No one.
(b) The priest.
(c) The sacristan.
(d) A nun.

5. From where did the Florentines take Donatello's "Judith and Holofernes" before bringing it to the Palazzo Vecchio?
(a) Venice.
(b) The Medici palace.
(c) Rome.
(d) The Uffizi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the author call "the first tragic figure, after Brutus, in political history"?

2. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?

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

4. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?

5. Who is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. For what reason is Saint Giovanni Gualberto primarily remembered?

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

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

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

6. Describe the weather in Florence in summer.

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

8. What is modern Florence's relationship with its historical artifacts?

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

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

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