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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. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?
(a) Pope Clement VII.
(b) Cosimo il Vecchio.
(c) Donatello.
(d) Savonarola.

2. What is the bird of Florence?
(a) A bluebird.
(b) A sparrow.
(c) A swallow.
(d) A crow.

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

4. Which religious sect of medieval Florence was vegetarian and believed that the world was utterly depraved?
(a) The Waldensians.
(b) The Epicureans.
(c) The Patarenes.
(d) The Reformers.

5. Who was the wife of Cosimo I?
(a) Eleanor of Toledo.
(b) Margaretta di Lorenzi.
(c) Anne Tudor.
(d) Isabella of Venice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brought about the Donation of Constantine?

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

3. What structure in the Piazza della Republica celebrates progress?

4. What was the home of the Roman governor called?

5. Who is the patron saint of Florence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the weather in Florence in summer.

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

6. Describe the typical interior and exterior of Florence palaces.

7. Summarize the incidents that began the war between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.

8. Why is sculpture part of "the very fabric of the city" of Florence, as the author asserts in Chapter 2?

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

10. Name some of the theories concerning where the head of "Primavera" ended up after the Santa Trinita Bridge was blown up during World War II.

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