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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michelangelo see in the form of Tommaso Cavalieri?
(a) the way he would like to look
(b) a potentially good model
(c) the epitome of the figures he has painted and carved
(d) the way he would have looked if his face had not been ruined

2. What is Michelangelo expected to learn about?
(a) marble quarrying
(b) charging for his work
(c) dress, manners, life, and art
(d) keeping a journal

3. Who wants to bring down the papacy and return Italy to the simple, stark, religious ways of his own beliefs?
(a) Savonarola
(b) Leonardo da Vinci
(c) Lorenzo de Medici
(d) Lodovico Buonarroti

4. What does Leonardo da Vinci do that irritates Michelangelo?
(a) challenge him to a carving duel
(b) makes jokes about Michelangelo
(c) steals his commission
(d) openly denigrates sculpture

5. Eventually, what does Lodovico hope for that will help his family?
(a) Michelangelo will change his mind
(b) connections to de Medici
(c) a new position in Milan
(d) his son's becoming famous

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the city of Florence bribe Caesar Borgia?

2. What does Michelangelo insist on from the Pope?

3. While working on the panels, what is Michelangelo dreaming about?

4. What raw material does Michelangelo use to carve a crucifix?

5. Why does Michelangelo compare his work with files borrowed from Ghirlandaio?

(see the answer key)

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