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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what city is Florence compared in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) New York.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Boston.
(d) London.

2. 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 Brownings.
(d) The Shelleys.

3. According to the author, who is the only person who can observe Florence well?
(a) The gatekeeper at the Boboli.
(b) The toddlers in strollers.
(c) The streetsweepers.
(d) The night watchman.

4. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?
(a) Gregory the Great.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Saint Francis.
(d) Ugo of Tuscany.

5. Which Florentine church is too far outside Florence for most tourists to visit?
(a) San Miniato.
(b) Santa Maria Novella.
(c) The Duomo.
(d) Santa Trinita.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author's opinion as stated in Chapter 1, Italians are not what?

2. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what injury was suffered by the woman who was hit by two bicycles?

3. According to Chapter 1, how much did the piece of masonry that fell from the National Library weigh?

4. Where is Donatello's David?

5. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?

(see the answer key)

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