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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described as the "ideally self-interested despot"?
(a) Don Quixote.
(b) Machiavelli's Prince.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Mussolini.

2. The artist mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 4 is puzzling over what subject?
(a) Form.
(b) Perspective.
(c) Line.
(d) Balance.

3. What was the name of Florence's prospective satellite city?
(a) Sarbane.
(b) Zigurrat.
(c) Sorgane.
(d) Piazza della Romana.

4. Under whose leadership were the Patarenes quashed?
(a) Saint Peter Martyr.
(b) Saint Benedict.
(c) Pope Stephen II.
(d) Martin Luther.

5. What object did Toscanelli add to the Duomo, as mentioned in Chapter 4?
(a) A metronome.
(b) A pipe organ.
(c) A spiral staircase.
(d) A gnomon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?

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

3. What was directly outside the boundaries of ancient Florence?

4. Which religious sect of medieval Florence was vegetarian and believed that the world was utterly depraved?

5. During a medieval uprising, which group did Michele di Lando lead?

(see the answer key)

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