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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is Saint John's robe in the fresco in Santa Maria Novella?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Pink.
(d) Blue.

2. In what period did grotesquerie begin to become present in Florentine art?
(a) The Romantic period.
(b) The Enlightment.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The Middle Ages.

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

4. According to Chapter 5, what is the main characteristic of Florentine art?
(a) Gaudiness.
(b) Simplicity.
(c) Truthfulness.
(d) Realism.

5. Who wrote an exaggerated biography of Castruccio Castracane?
(a) Bonaventure.
(b) Dante.
(c) Plutarch.
(d) Machiavelli.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patron saint of Florence?

2. Where did Buondelmonte de' Buondelmonti, the bridegroom mentioned in Chapter 2, die?

3. Who was the first Florentine Christian martyr?

4. As mentioned in the end of Chapter 3, how long was medieval Florence at peace from political unrest?

5. Who created the Duomo?

(see the answer key)

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