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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pope Leo offer for Michelangelo to work on?
(a) decorations for the Papal apartments
(b) a baptismal font for San Lorenzo
(c) the portico of his summer palace
(d) the walls of a sacristy of the San Lorenzo

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

3. What does Pope Julius II want Michelangelo to carve for him?
(a) a new marble throne
(b) his tomb in the middle of St. Peter's
(c) a copy of the David
(d) another pieta

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

5. What does Michelangelo's brother, Lionardo, believe his brother has become?
(a) absent minded and useless
(b) subservient and docile
(c) overly educated in the arts
(d) corrupted by power and money

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does da Vinci align himself with the Borgias?

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

3. Who agrees to protect Florence from the Borgias?

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

5. What would closing their shop in Florence cost Michelangelo's brothers?

(see the answer key)

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