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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the author cite as building on the artistic endeavors of Uccello and Piero della Francisca?
(a) Vincent van Gogh.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Andy Warhol.
(d) Jackson Pollock.

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, what artistic idea did the Venetians learn from the Florentines?
(a) Impressionism.
(b) Cubism.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Trompe l'oeil.

3. According to Chapter 4, what novel contains a painting as the antagonist?
(a) Gravity's Rainbow.
(b) The Sound and the Fury.
(c) Finnegan's Wake.
(d) The Picture of Dorian Grey.

4. According to the medieval conception of Florence, which city is Florence's mother?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Athens.
(c) Constantinople.
(d) Rome.

5. When did the battle of Pistoria take place?
(a) A.D. 66.
(b) 1 B.C.
(c) 722 B.C.
(d) 62 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Donatello live?

2. What object did Toscanelli add to the Duomo, as mentioned in Chapter 4?

3. According to Chapter 6, which month is the "classic Florentine 'month'"?

4. Who painted the Virgin Mary's head in the fresco of the Annunciation at the church Santissima Annunziata?

5. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?

(see the answer key)

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