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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which artist does the author NOT mention as depicting objects from ordinary life, such as household utensils?
(a) Leonardo.
(b) Ghirlandaio.
(c) Fra Fillipo.
(d) Gozzoli.

2. Which artist had originally attempted a sculpture with the piece of marble that Michelangelo used for the "David"?
(a) Donatello.
(b) Ammannati.
(c) Brunelleschi.
(d) Agostino di Duccio.

3. What subject of Savonarola's preaching does the author mention in Chapter 4?
(a) Noah's Ark.
(b) The resurrection.
(c) Atonement.
(d) The Exodus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Paolo Uccello's birth name?

2. Who wrote the poem "Ode to the West Wind"?

3. From where did the stone for the Santa Trinita bridge come?

4. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?

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

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