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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who agrees to protect Florence from the Borgias?
(a) the Greeks
(b) the Gauls
(c) the Vatican
(d) the French

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

4. What is the misconception his family has of Michelangelo?
(a) he is in trouble with the law
(b) he has contracts he hasn't told them about
(c) he is a total failure
(d) he is made of money

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is being considered to carve the large block of marble that seems to have a defect?

2. Who replaces Pope Leo X?

3. After Lodovico dies in 1534, what does Michelangelo do?

4. What does Torrigiani do to Michelangelo that causes him to flee the palace?

5. What causes the death of Pope Leo X?

(see the answer key)

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