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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the author call "an incubus on its present population"?

4. Whom did Dante see at the Badia?

5. What is the bird of Florence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the medieval nobility's behavior in medieval Florence, as discussed in Chapter 3.

2. Where is the religious imagery in the city kept, and what does that imagery depict?

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

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

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

6. Why is the noise of Florence such a problem? What have been some of the proposals to solve it?

7. What is the typical behavior of Florentines towards tourists in restaurants?

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

9. Describe the weather in Florence in summer.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two Florentine artists, and discuss in detail the way the Florentine trait of "simplicity of life" guided their work and their personal lives.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast some of the artists that the author describes as having had some tendencies toward madness.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the work of Il Rosso and Pontormo with the work of one other prominent Florentine artist.

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