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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. Whom does the character Fiorino emulate?
(a) Helen of Troy.
(b) Remus.
(c) The Minotaur.
(d) Romulus.
2. What is the color scheme of the Baptistery?
(a) Blue and gold.
(b) Pink and brown.
(c) Black and white.
(d) Grey and brown.
3. As mentioned in Chapter 2, in Dante's Inferno, which Florentine is in Hell with the heretics and Epicureans?
(a) Farinata.
(b) Cosimo I.
(c) Catiline.
(d) Machiavelli.
4. In what period did grotesquerie begin to become present in Florentine art?
(a) The Middle Ages.
(b) The Enlightment.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The Romantic period.
5. According to Chapter 2, by the time Michelangelo was an old man, who could afford to commission a work from him?
(a) Universities.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Popes.
(d) Groups of townspeople.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to the author, who is the only person who can observe Florence well?
2. Which group of people most commonly gets robbed in Florence?
3. What buildings in rural Tuscany survived the medieval wars between the nobility and the people?
4. Where did the feud between the Blacks and the Whites begin?
5. Who was the first Florentine Christian martyr?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the architectural difference between Guelph and Ghibelline cities.
2. For what reason is Saint Giovanni Gualberto primarily remembered?
3. Why is sculpture part of "the very fabric of the city" of Florence, as the author asserts in Chapter 2?
4. Describe a legend that is attached to one of the churches mentioned in Chapter 3.
5. Why is the noise of Florence such a problem? What have been some of the proposals to solve it?
6. Why does the author describe Florence as a "manly town" in Chapter 1?
7. Describe the statue of Neptune in the fountain of the Piazza della Signoria.
8. Describe the medieval nobility's behavior in medieval Florence, as discussed in Chapter 3.
9. Describe the ways in which Florence and Rome are related.
10. Describe the weather in Florence in summer.
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