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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michelangelo's brother, Lionardo, believe his brother has become?
(a) absent minded and useless
(b) subservient and docile
(c) overly educated in the arts
(d) corrupted by power and money

2. Who comes and sees the sculpture Michelangelo did?
(a) Lodovico
(b) Contessina de Medici
(c) Bertoldo
(d) Lorenzo

3. What does Michelangelo learn the city fathers have sent behind Piero de Medici's back?
(a) a request for mercenaries from Germany
(b) a warrant for Piero's arrest
(c) letters to the Pope
(d) a delegation to Charles VIII

4. Who operates the sculpture garden?
(a) Bottecelli
(b) Bertoldo
(c) da Vinci
(d) Bernini

5. What is Michelangelo's conclusion about his looks after the broken nose?
(a) now he is handsome
(b) it makes him look eccentric
(c) it is something he cannot change
(d) his work must conceal his looks

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lodovico initially refuse to give his son?

2. What does Savonarola preach about the de Medici family?

3. At the palace de Medici, with whom does Michelangelo share quarters?

4. What does Michelangelo insist painting draped figures allows the artist to do?

5. How does Charles VIII of France want to claim the Kingdom of Naples?

(see the answer key)

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