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

2. Which group of people most commonly gets robbed in Florence?
(a) Americans.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Italians.
(d) Germans and Swedes.

3. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?
(a) Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams.
(b) Keats and Wordsworth.
(c) The Shelleys.
(d) The Brownings.

4. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what injury was suffered by the woman who was hit by two bicycles?
(a) A broken arm.
(b) Two broken legs.
(c) A cracked skull.
(d) Internal bleeding.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 1, of what does everyone in Florence complain about?

2. Where is Donatello's David?

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

4. According to Chapter 1, if you are lost in Florence, whom should you ask for directions?

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

(see the answer key)

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