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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the river that runs through Florence?
(a) The Danube.
(b) The Riviera.
(c) The Tigris.
(d) The Arno.

2. 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.

3. Whom does the author call "the first tragic figure, after Brutus, in political history"?
(a) Saint Giovanni Gualberto.
(b) Ammannati.
(c) Giano della Bella.
(d) Pope Clement VII.

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

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

6. According to Chapter 1, how much did the piece of masonry that fell from the National Library weigh?
(a) 5 pounds.
(b) 30 pounds.
(c) Approximately 1200 pounds.
(d) 132 pounds.

7. What buildings in rural Tuscany survived the medieval wars between the nobility and the people?
(a) Convents.
(b) Libraries.
(c) Inns.
(d) Palaces.

8. As Chapter 2 mentions, what place in Florence "resembles a petrified forest"?
(a) Michelangelo's studio.
(b) The tomb of San Miniato.
(c) The butterfly garden at the Boboli.
(d) The basement of the Duomo.

9. As discussed in Chapter 3, what caused the civic unrest in medieval Florence?
(a) The fight for liberty against tyranny.
(b) Ambition and envy.
(c) Pride.
(d) The heavy taxes Rome imposed.

10. Where is Donatello's David?
(a) The Palazzo Strozzi.
(b) The Bargello.
(c) The Baptistery.
(d) The Uffizi.

11. From where did the stone for the Santa Trinita bridge come?
(a) The quarries to the north of the city.
(b) The Boboli Garden.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Rome.

12. According to the information provided in the first paragraph of Chapter 2, who attacked Fiesole?
(a) Charlemagne.
(b) Attila the Hun.
(c) Fiorino.
(d) Hannibal.

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

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

15. Who brought about the Donation of Constantine?
(a) Saint Sylvester.
(b) Tertullian.
(c) Constantine.
(d) Gregory the Great.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under whose leadership were the Patarenes quashed?

2. What is the main road between Siena and Rome?

3. According to the author's opinion as stated in Chapter 1, Italians are not what?

4. To what city is Florence compared in the beginning of Chapter 1?

5. When were the statues that decorated the Santa Trinita bridge sculpted?

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