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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?
(a) The Brownings.
(b) Keats and Wordsworth.
(c) Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams.
(d) The Shelleys.

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

3. What was the home of the Roman governor called?
(a) The Sanhedrin.
(b) The praetorium.
(c) The Piazza del Gubernador.
(d) The Piazza del Campidoglio.

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

5. Who is the patron saint of Florence?
(a) Saint Jerome.
(b) Saint John the Baptist.
(c) Saint Cecilia.
(d) Saint Augustine.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to popular opinion as mentioned by the author in Chapter 4, who is the person represented in the center of "Universal Deluge"?

2. Who was the first Florentine Christian martyr?

3. Who painted the Virgin Mary's head in the fresco of the Annunciation at the church Santissima Annunziata?

4. Who created the Duomo?

5. What museum in Florence does the author call "a picture gallery" in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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