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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 living in the Medicdi palace
(b) for changing the design of the tomb
(c) for abandoning the project in favor of de Medici projects
(d) for taking so long to do the tomb

2. What is offered to Michelangelo with a commission for him to sculpt the Twelve Apostles for the cathedral?
(a) a large block of marble
(b) a seat on the city council
(c) a house
(d) a new wardrobe

3. What do the members of the elite academy discuss and learn about?
(a) political, literary, music and philosophical ideas
(b) science, exploration, and evolution
(c) history, religion, and horticulture
(d) art, history, and geography

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

5. What does Michelangelo accept that puts him in competition with da Vinci?
(a) a sculpture of the Mona Lisa
(b) an art exhibit in the palizzo
(c) a design for a new cathedral
(d) painting a wall next to his

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pope Leo offer for Michelangelo to work on?

2. Having lost everything, what is the one contract Michelangelo has?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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