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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 meaning of the name that unskilled laborers at Santa Maria del Fiore were called?
(a) Men of least importance.
(b) Men without family.
(c) Men without name or family.
(d) Men without a name.

2. What guidebook in the 1400s directed visitors to the holy sites of Rome?
(a) Roma instaurata.
(b) Mirabilia urbis romae.
(c) Descriptio urbis Romae.
(d) Roma Sotterranea.

3. When was "On the Tranquility of the Soul" written?
(a) 1444.
(b) 1441.
(c) 1443.
(d) 1442.

4. How much did the sandstone beams used at Santa Maria del Fiore weigh?
(a) 1900 lbs.
(b) 1700 lbs.
(c) 2000 lbs.
(d) 1800 lbs.

5. When did work begin on the device Filippo created to lift the materials up to the cupola at Santa Maria del Fiore?
(a) 1420.
(b) 1422.
(c) 1421.
(d) 1423.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Roman ruins were built with the forced labor of early Christians?

2. What type of gallery did Filippo add to his dome plans for the Santa Maria del Fiore in 1419?

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

4. How many men worked on the dome at Santa Maria del Fiore?

5. Where was the dome designing contest being held?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were Filippo and Lorenzo such strong rivals?

2. What happened during the religious feasts of Brunelleschi's time?

3. What issues was the dome designing contest for the Santa Maria del Fiore attempting to resolve?

4. What was Rome like in the 1400s?

5. How did master builders during Filippo's time regulate the curvature of domes?

6. What happened in the wooden chain designing contest for the Santa Maria del Fiore?

7. What types of measuring tools were available to those working on the Santa Maria del Fiore?

8. Who was Lorenzo Ghiberti?

9. Why did the author describe goldsmithing as "not the most wholesome of professions"?

10. What was a rota magna?

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