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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the type of Florentine farming system in which the landowner and the peasant share the crop and the profit?
(a) Mezzanine.
(b) Fiorentinita.
(c) Belladonna.
(d) Mezzadria.

2. What is the title of the hymn that Chapter 6 mentions as having been composed by one of Savonarola's adherents?
(a) "Crazy for Jesus."
(b) "O Sacred Head."
(c) "Beneath the Cross of Jesus."
(d) "Fairest Lord Jesus."

3. Which character from Dante's Inferno is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 3?
(a) Vanni Fucci.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Cosimo I.

4. Who is the person mentioned in Chapter 3 who did not exact revenge from someone he came across on Good Friday?
(a) Saint Giovanni Gualberto.
(b) Uberti.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Cosimo il Vecchio.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "Ode to the West Wind"?

2. As mentioned in Chapter 4, which artist enjoyed witnessing hangings?

3. In what year did a flood destroy the Marzocco?

4. According to the medieval conception of Florence, which city is Florence's mother?

5. Who created the fresco "Universal Deluge"?

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