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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As related in the tale told in this chapter, who drew a perfect freehand circle for the Pope?
(a) Giotto.
(b) Ammannati.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Shakespeare.

2. Who wrote the poem "Ode to the West Wind"?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) Robert Browning.

3. Who was the wife of Cosimo I?
(a) Margaretta di Lorenzi.
(b) Eleanor of Toledo.
(c) Isabella of Venice.
(d) Anne Tudor.

4. As Chapter 2 mentions, what place in Florence "resembles a petrified forest"?
(a) The butterfly garden at the Boboli.
(b) The basement of the Duomo.
(c) The tomb of San Miniato.
(d) Michelangelo's studio.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 5, what did Donatello and Brunelleschi plan to have for lunch one day?

2. What is in the middle of the main piazza of Florence?

3. According to Chapter 4, what object is frequently found in the center of Florentine paintings of the Annunciation?

4. What color is Saint John's robe in the fresco in Santa Maria Novella?

5. Whom does the author cite as building on the artistic endeavors of Uccello and Piero della Francisca?

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