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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. Who broke the Florentine custom of honoring the public far above the individual?

2. According to the medieval belief, who were the ancestors of the Blacks in Florence?

3. What is the bird of Florence?

4. What color of marble is not found in the Florentine hills?

5. As represented in the statue at the Bargello, what weapon does Saint George conspicuously not carry?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the architectural difference between Guelph and Ghibelline cities.

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

4. What is modern Florence's relationship with its historical artifacts?

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

6. Summarize the story of the founding of Florence, as discussed in the beginning of Chapter 2.

7. 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.

8. What did Saint Peter Martyr do that dramatically affected Florence?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe in detail the character and work of Paolo Uccello, including his greatest work, the Universal Deluge.

Essay Topic 2

Write a detailed description of the setting of modern Florence, and compare and contrast that setting with another city that the book discusses.

Essay Topic 3

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

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