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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 Florentine church housed a respected music school in the fourteenth century?
(a) Santa Maria Novella.
(b) Santa Trinita.
(c) Santa Croce.
(d) Santa Biblia.

2. Who created the Pazzi Chapel?
(a) Saint Francis.
(b) A monk.
(c) Brunelleschi.
(d) Fra Fillipo Lippi.

3. Who wrote the instructional booklet Della Pittura?
(a) Brunelleschi.
(b) Toscanelli.
(c) Leon Battista Alberti.
(d) Paolo Uccello.

4. According to Chapter 6, who was the only Florentine diplomat?
(a) Lorenzo de' Medici.
(b) Cosimo I.
(c) Pope Clement VII.
(d) Michelangelo.

5. According to information provided in Chapter 4, which artist was posthumously considered to be "a devil"?
(a) Andrea del Castagno.
(b) Donatello.
(c) Titian.
(d) Leonardo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these artists is not mentioned in Chapter 6 as a "flowery painter"?

2. As mentioned in Chapter 5, what did Donatello and Brunelleschi plan to have for lunch one day?

3. Who performed the "egg trick" described in Chapter 5?

4. What color is Saint John's robe in the fresco in Santa Maria Novella?

5. According to the author in Chapter 4, what artistic idea did the Venetians learn from the Florentines?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the origin of the phrase "as round as Giotto's O."

2. What were the ramifications for an artist who became a Piagnone?

3. Describe Uccello's greatest fresco.

4. Describe some of the characteristics of the Medicis.

5. Describe the event that occurred in 1304 to make the Florentines believe judgment was near.

6. How did Donatello influence Padua?

7. Explain the author's meaning in her assertion that Florentine painting "had a sweet tooth."

8. Name some of the ways in which Florence unleashed original ideas on the world.

9. What is the color scheme of the "springtime" painters? Give one example of its use.

10. Summarize the love story of Maria and Michael Dagomari.

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