View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the bird of Florence?
(a) A crow.
(b) A swallow.
(c) A bluebird.
(d) A sparrow.

2. What buildings in rural Tuscany survived the medieval wars between the nobility and the people?
(a) Inns.
(b) Libraries.
(c) Palaces.
(d) Convents.

3. According to information provided in Chapter 4, which artist was posthumously considered to be "a devil"?
(a) Leonardo.
(b) Titian.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Andrea del Castagno.

4. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?
(a) Daniel Deronda.
(b) Romola.
(c) The Mill on the Floss.
(d) Silas Marner.

5. What is the main road between Siena and Rome?
(a) The Autobahn.
(b) The Via Florentina.
(c) Highway 375.
(d) The Via Romana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous Florentine statue no longer has a head?

2. Whom does the author call "the first tragic figure, after Brutus, in political history"?

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

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

5. Where was "The Battle of San Romano" originally housed?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 209 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample