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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Donatello live?
(a) The Medici family.
(b) His sister.
(c) Brunelleschi.
(d) His mother.

2. How old was Dante when he fought in the battle of Campaldino?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Forty-one.

3. 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) "Beneath the Cross of Jesus."
(c) "Crazy for Jesus."
(d) "Fairest Lord Jesus."

4. Whom does the author call "the resident humanist in the Medici household"?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Poliziano.
(c) Catherine the Great.
(d) Clarice Orsini.

5. What was the first opera?
(a) The Magic Flute.
(b) Eurydice.
(c) La Traviatta.
(d) La Boheme.

6. Which artist suffered a broken nose as a child?
(a) Masolino.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Fra Fillipo Lippi.
(d) Leonardo.

7. What was the nickname for people who followed Savonarola?
(a) Piagnone.
(b) Corleone.
(c) Pietone.
(d) Mascarpone.

8. What museum in Florence does the author call "a picture gallery" in Chapter 4?
(a) The Bargello.
(b) The Uffizi.
(c) The Boboli Garden.
(d) The Museum of the Works of the Duomo.

9. Which artist had originally attempted a sculpture with the piece of marble that Michelangelo used for the "David"?
(a) Agostino di Duccio.
(b) Brunelleschi.
(c) Ammannati.
(d) Donatello.

10. Whom does the author cite as building on the artistic endeavors of Uccello and Piero della Francisca?
(a) Jackson Pollock.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Vincent van Gogh.
(d) Andy Warhol.

11. As mentioned in Chapter 4, which artist enjoyed witnessing hangings?
(a) Leonardo.
(b) Brunelleschi.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Fra Fillipo Lippi.

12. What was Paolo Uccello's birth name?
(a) Paolo di Dono.
(b) Paolo Fernandi.
(c) Paolo di Medici.
(d) Paolo di Coppola.

13. According to information provided in Chapter 4, which artist was posthumously considered to be "a devil"?
(a) Donatello.
(b) Titian.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Andrea del Castagno.

14. What church replaced the Santa Reparata?
(a) Santa Trinita.
(b) Santa Croce.
(c) Santissima Annunziata.
(d) The Duomo.

15. Who wrote the poem "Ode to the West Wind"?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Robert Browning.
(d) Robert Frost.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did Petrarch write his love sonnets?

2. What subject of Savonarola's preaching does the author mention in Chapter 4?

3. According to Chapter 5, what is the main characteristic of Florentine art?

4. According to Chapter 6, which month is the "classic Florentine 'month'"?

5. According to Chapter 6, what are the two extreme images in Florentine painting?

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