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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 4, what was the first major literary work written in Italian?
(a) The Divine Comedy.
(b) Bella Divina.
(c) Faustus.
(d) Daniel DeFoe.

3. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?
(a) Universities.
(b) Groups of townspeople.
(c) Popes.
(d) Merchants.

4. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?
(a) Romulus.
(b) Remus.
(c) Helen of Troy.
(d) The Minotaur.

5. According to Chapter 1, if you are lost in Florence, whom should you ask for directions?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A server at any restaurant.
(c) Any passerby.
(d) The guard at the Boboli.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did Brunelleschi use to describe the figure of Christ on Donatello's crucifix for Santa Croce?

2. What was Paolo Uccello's birth name?

3. As mentioned at the end of Chapter 1, who hid in the German Institute during World War II?

4. Under what medieval Florentine laws could a supposed political dissenter be convicted without evidence?

5. What is Donatello's statue of John the Baptist as a boy called?

(see the answer key)

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