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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the palace de Medici, with whom does Michelangelo share quarters?
(a) Bertoldo, the sculpture master
(b) Francesco Granacci
(c) Donato Donatello
(d) Pietro Torrigiani

2. Who is being considered to carve the large block of marble that seems to have a defect?
(a) Sandro Bottecelli
(b) Leonardo da Vinci
(c) Domenico Ghirlandaio
(d) Donato Donatello

3. What elite group is Michelangelo invited to join?
(a) The Neo Lyceum
(b) The Plato Academy
(c) The Florence Arts Guild
(d) The Bishop's Study Group

4. What is Michelangelo's idea of a statue that can be carved from the defective block of marble?
(a) Hercules
(b) David
(c) a pieta
(d) St. Paul

5. What does Michelangelo discover that he cannot do?
(a) replicate Bertoldo's style
(b) speak French
(c) form ideas of his own
(d) work in three dimensions

Short Answer Questions

1. As payment to the French, what will Michelangelo carve?

2. What does the new Pope allow Duke of Urbino to do?

3. What is something Michelangelo learns from members of the academy?

4. What on Michelangelo's wall gains him several enemies?

5. What does Leonardo da Vinci do that irritates Michelangelo?

(see the answer key)

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