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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many colors of marble were ordered to cover the Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

2. What feast in Florence in 1436 was the most spectacular of that year?
(a) Consecration Feast.
(b) Feast of the people.
(c) Saint's Feast.
(d) Feast of Annunciation.

3. What capomaestro was fired for not being able to climb the steps at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) Lorenzo Ghiberti.
(b) Emilio De Fabris.
(c) Giovanni d' Ambrogio.
(d) Arnolfo di Cambio.

4. How old was Lorenzo Ghiberti when he died?
(a) 79.
(b) 80.
(c) 78.
(d) 77.

5. What was the view on architecture in the middle ages?
(a) It was an excellent career.
(b) It was a fine art.
(c) Unfit profession for educated men.
(d) It was the career of the future.

6. How many sets of stairs were in Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

7. When did Filippo die?
(a) April 17, 1446.
(b) April 15, 1446.
(c) April 18, 1446.
(d) April 16, 1446.

8. How long did the brick makers in Florence have to wait to unload the kiln after the bricks were done being fired?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 5 weeks.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 4 weeks.

9. What was the majority of the exterior of the Santa Maria del Fiore tiled in?
(a) Granite.
(b) Limestone.
(c) Marble.
(d) Slate.

10. What color was bianchi marmi marble?
(a) Cream.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Gold.

11. On what day was Santa Maria del Fiore consecrated?
(a) August 31st.
(b) August 30th.
(c) September 1st.
(d) September 2nd.

12. How many masons at Santa Maria del Fiore were fired in December 1430?
(a) 60.
(b) 50.
(c) 40.
(d) 70.

13. How tall did contemporary tests determine that Filippo had been?
(a) 5 feet 7 inches.
(b) 5 feet 6 inches.
(c) 5 feet 5 inches.
(d) 5 feet 4 inches.

14. In what year did Lorenzo Ghiberti complete "Doors of Paradise"?
(a) 1448.
(b) 1447.
(c) 1450.
(d) 1449.

15. What type of diversity did the story of the Tower of Babel account for?
(a) Educational.
(b) Race.
(c) Linguistic.
(d) Gender.

Short Answer Questions

1. From the Renaissance on what did most domes have at the top?

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

3. How many steps were there to the summit of Santa Maria del Fiore?

4. How many years had the residents of Florence been waiting to see the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore completed?

5. In what year did the beams for the dome start arriving in Florence?

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