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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Displeased with Piero de Medici, what are the people of Florence more inclined to listen to?
(a) Savonarola's sermons praising Piero de Medici
(b) proposals for annexing Florence to France
(c) speakers promoting a democratic government
(d) Savonarola's sermons about the excesses of evil

2. How is Pietro Torrigiani described?
(a) a well-built, handsome young man
(b) a short, fat hanger on
(c) a deformed genius
(d) a plain and untalented boy

3. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?
(a) looking for ways out of Florence
(b) getting drunk and living a wild life
(c) running contraband goods
(d) seeing a lover

4. What does Michelangelo give his brothers Buonarroto and Giovansimone ?
(a) money to open their own shop
(b) a place to stay in Rome
(c) an audience with Pope Leo X
(d) his house in Florence

5. For his first year as an apprentice, how is Michelangelo treated?
(a) as a boy to make the daily coffee
(b) as a messenger boy
(c) as if he knows nothing about art
(d) as though he were not there

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michelangelo discover his father believes about Lorenzo de Medici?

2. Who wants to bring down the papacy and return Italy to the simple, stark, religious ways of his own beliefs?

3. What does Granacci tell Michelangelo that Ghirlandaio is willing to do?

4. What is Michelangelo's position in the home of Cardinal Riario?

5. Who is the female friend Michelangelo visits in Bologna?

(see the answer key)

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