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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 was the height limit of medieval Florentine towers?
(a) Fifty meters.
(b) Two hundred feet.
(c) One hundred meters.
(d) Ninety-six feet.

2. Under whose leadership were the Patarenes quashed?
(a) Pope Stephen II.
(b) Saint Benedict.
(c) Martin Luther.
(d) Saint Peter Martyr.

3. As mentioned in the end of Chapter 3, how long was medieval Florence at peace from political unrest?
(a) Six years.
(b) One year.
(c) One hundred years.
(d) Ten years.

4. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?
(a) Romulus.
(b) Helen of Troy.
(c) The Minotaur.
(d) Remus.

5. During a medieval uprising, which group did Michele di Lando lead?
(a) The sculptors.
(b) The cobblers.
(c) The wool-carders.
(d) The landed gentry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which group of people most commonly gets robbed in Florence?

3. Who is the person mentioned in Chapter 3 who did not exact revenge from someone he came across on Good Friday?

4. What adjective does the author use to describe Venice and Siena in Chapter 1?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Michelangelo's personality.

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

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

7. Describe a legend that is attached to one of the churches mentioned in Chapter 3.

8. Describe the "'characteristic' Florentine street."

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

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

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