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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the book "On Aqueducts"?
(a) Julius Sextus Frontinus.
(b) Sextus Julius Frontinus.
(c) Julius Sextus.
(d) Julius Frontinus.

2. What was the name of Filippo's fellow goldsmith who was a renowned artist by the time he was forty?
(a) Angelo Ghiberti.
(b) Lorenzo Ghiberti.
(c) John Ghiberti.
(d) Cosimo Ghiberti.

3. What word did the author use to describe how the people in Florence feel watching the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore being constructed?
(a) Breathtaking.
(b) Thrilled.
(c) Excited.
(d) Awed.

4. What nationality was the man who built the aqueduct in Saldae, Algeria in A.D. 148?
(a) Italian.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) Roman.

5. Which Italian artist was legendary for the broken nose that caused ugliness?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Da Vinci.
(c) Allegieri.
(d) Botticelli.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many trees had been ordered for the platforms and scaffolds at Santa Maria del Fiore?

2. What color was bianchi marmi marble?

3. Where was the dome designing contest being held?

4. How high above the drum was the dome for the Santa Maria del Fiore in 1428?

5. What did Filippo create to lift the materials up to the cupola at Santa Maria del Fiore?

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