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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is described as the "ideally self-interested despot"?
(a) Don Quixote.
(b) Mussolini.
(c) Machiavelli's Prince.
(d) Michelangelo.

4. What is in the middle of the main piazza of Florence?
(a) A parking lot.
(b) A statue commemorating Pope Clement VII.
(c) A restaurant with a great deal of outdoor seating.
(d) A huge fountain.

5. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?
(a) Dante.
(b) Donatello.
(c) Beccadelli.
(d) Daniel DeFoe.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Chapter 1, who normally sells the postcards in a Florentine church?

4. In Chapter 3, to which city is modern Florence contrasted in order to show the difference between Guelph and Ghibelline?

5. When were the statues that decorated the Santa Trinita bridge sculpted?

(see the answer key)

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