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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is something Michelangelo learns from members of the academy?
(a) music and dancing
(b) literature and the value of writing poetry
(c) accounting and the importance of politics
(d) elocution and ethics

2. What does Michelangelo discover his father believes about Lorenzo de Medici?
(a) he is bankrupt
(b) he is a tyrant
(c) he is a fool
(d) he is a saint

3. After the festival for his son, where does Piero de Medici invite Michelangelo?
(a) back into the de Medici home
(b) back to restore the Sculpture Garden
(c) on a trip to Bologna
(d) on a trip to visit King Charles VIII of France

4. How does Michelangelo feel about painting frescoes?
(a) he does not like doing them
(b) he thinks they are difficult to do
(c) he is thrilled to be doing them
(d) he feels he is learning a lot

5. How do Michelangelo and Granacci reckon Lodovico will not be harsh when he learns his son is going to de Medici?
(a) if Granacci is present
(b) if his step mother is in the room
(c) if he hears the name de Medici
(d) if Michelangelo promises to give him his money

Short Answer Questions

1. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?

2. What do the members of the elite academy discuss and learn about?

3. What is one thing Michelangelo is thrilled that he can do?

4. Instead of a commission, what does Cardinal Riario give Michelangelo?

5. What does Lodovico think sculptors are?

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