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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 1, who normally sells the postcards in a Florentine church?
(a) No one.
(b) The sacristan.
(c) The priest.
(d) A nun.

3. Where is Donatello's David?
(a) The Baptistery.
(b) The Bargello.
(c) The Uffizi.
(d) The Palazzo Strozzi.

4. Which group of people does the author mention in Chapter 1 as willing to show their city to anyone?
(a) Romans.
(b) Parisians.
(c) Florentines.
(d) Venetians.

5. According to Chapter 1, of what does everyone in Florence complain about?
(a) The tourists.
(b) The noise.
(c) The smell.
(d) The weather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What structure in the Piazza della Republica celebrates progress?

2. To what city is Florence compared in the beginning of Chapter 1?

3. What does the author call "an incubus on its present population"?

4. What is the name of the river that runs through Florence?

5. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?

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