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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 Savonarola preach about the de Medici family?
(a) they are rich and should give to the poor
(b) they are evil and should be destroyed
(c) they are holy and should be revered
(d) they are his strong supporters

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

3. What does Torrigiani do to Michelangelo that causes him to flee the palace?
(a) breaks Michelangelo's nose
(b) breaks Michelangelo's sculpture
(c) breaks Michelangelo's arm
(d) breaks Michelangelo's tools

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who replaces Pope Leo X?

2. What is the reaction of the city when they first see the David in progress?

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

4. From whom does Jacopo Galli secure a commission for Michelangelo?

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

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