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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 the Duke really want to punish Michelangelo for?
(a) for changing the design of the tomb
(b) for taking so long to do the tomb
(c) for living in the Medicdi palace
(d) for abandoning the project in favor of de Medici projects

2. 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

3. Who replaces Pope Leo X?
(a) Pope Pius II
(b) Pope Adrian
(c) Pope Alexander
(d) Pope Clement

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

5. Having lost everything, what is the one contract Michelangelo has?
(a) a cupid for the Bishop of Florence
(b) a Risen Christ for Metello Vari
(c) a garden decoration for de Medici
(d) a gravestone for a merchant

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michelangelo tell his brother about his art?

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

3. What does Savonarola preach about the de Medici family?

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

5. What does the Wool Guild own that is of interest to Michelangelo?

(see the answer key)

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