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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What adjective does the author use to describe Venice and Siena in Chapter 1?
(a) Suave.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Modern.
(d) Industrial.

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

5. What church houses art that memorializes the quashing of the Patarenes?
(a) San Frediano.
(b) The Duomo.
(c) Santa Croce.
(d) Santa Maria Novella.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what period did grotesquerie begin to become present in Florentine art?

2. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?

3. Whom does the author call "the first tragic figure, after Brutus, in political history"?

4. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?

5. What is the bird of Florence?

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