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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of political speech does Chapter 3 describe as occurring frequently in Florence since medieval times?
(a) Filibuster.
(b) Mudslinging.
(c) Elegiac.
(d) Harangue.

2. What is Donatello's statue of John the Baptist as a boy called?
(a) The Voice in the Wilderness.
(b) San Giovanni ante Baptiste.
(c) Little John.
(d) San Giovannino.

3. What day is market day in Florence?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Monday.

4. When did the battle of Pistoria take place?
(a) 62 B.C.
(b) 1 B.C.
(c) A.D. 66.
(d) 722 B.C.

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

6. Under whose leadership were the Patarenes quashed?
(a) Saint Peter Martyr.
(b) Pope Stephen II.
(c) Martin Luther.
(d) Saint Benedict.

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

8. As discussed in Chapter 3, who defiled Savonarola's pulpit?
(a) The Bad Companions.
(b) Guelph peasants.
(c) Various Inquisitors.
(d) Il Postino.

9. What is the main road between Siena and Rome?
(a) Highway 375.
(b) The Via Romana.
(c) The Autobahn.
(d) The Via Florentina.

10. As mentioned in Chapter 2, who carried Donatello's statue of the Infant Jesus into battle?
(a) Fiorino.
(b) Totila.
(c) Savonarola.
(d) Romulus.

11. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?
(a) Daniel DeFoe.
(b) Dante.
(c) Beccadelli.
(d) Donatello.

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

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

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

15. Which famous Florentine statue no longer has a head?
(a) La Dama del Alba.
(b) David.
(c) Primavera.
(d) Dawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poets touted a "tooled-leather idea of Florence as a dear bit of the old world"?

2. As represented in the statue at the Bargello, what weapon does Saint George conspicuously not carry?

3. As Chapter 2 mentions, what place in Florence "resembles a petrified forest"?

4. What is the color scheme of the Baptistery?

5. What is the name of Michelangelo's famous sculpture, which is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 1?

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