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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the author's opinion as stated in Chapter 1, Italians are not what?
(a) "Civic-minded."
(b) "Accustomed to fast food."
(c) "Willing to sit in traffic."
(d) "Fastidiously religious."

3. What is the name of Michelangelo's famous sculpture, which is mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 1?
(a) David.
(b) Moses.
(c) The Pieta.
(d) The Trinity.

4. Which church does the author describe in Chapter 2 as "half a grain depot to be used in case of emergency, siege, or famine"?
(a) The Duomo.
(b) The Bargello.
(c) Santa Croce.
(d) Orsanmichele.

5. Who is buried in the Badia, an abbey?
(a) Ugo of Tuscany.
(b) Gregory the Great.
(c) Saint Francis.
(d) Michelangelo.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote a sonnet denouncing Pistoia?

3. When did the battle of Pistoria take place?

4. Who is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 2?

5. Who wrote the poem "Hermaphroditus"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the statue of Neptune in the fountain of the Piazza della Signoria.

2. Compare Pistoia in the medieval period to Pistoia in the twentieth century.

3. For what reason is Saint Giovanni Gualberto primarily remembered?

4. Describe what happens to tourists who enter a church to look at the paintings.

5. Why does the author describe Florence in Chapter 1 as a "city of extremes"?

6. According to Chapter 1, what is the tourist's reaction to Florence? Why?

7. Explain the word "harangue" and its presence in the lives of the Florentine people.

8. Summarize some of the antics of Lorenzino de' Medici.

9. Describe the "'characteristic' Florentine street."

10. Describe the ways in which Florence and Rome are related.

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