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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Florentine church housed a respected music school in the fourteenth century?
(a) Santa Croce.
(b) Santa Trinita.
(c) Santa Biblia.
(d) Santa Maria Novella.

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

3. Who created the fresco "Universal Deluge"?
(a) Andrea del Castagno.
(b) Donatello.
(c) Uccello.
(d) Michelangelo.

4. As mentioned in Chapter 5, who humbled Emperor Henry IV?
(a) Catherine of Siena.
(b) Hildegard of Bingen.
(c) Countess Matilda of Tuscany.
(d) Julian of Norwich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did a flood destroy the Marzocco?

2. Which of George Eliot's novels is, according to McCarthy, a "sentimental pastiche of Florentine history"?

3. Who was the wife of Cosimo I?

4. As discussed in Chapter 3, who defiled Savonarola's pulpit?

5. Which church does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "half a grain depot to be used in case of emergency, siege, or famine"?

(see the answer key)

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