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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michelangelo learn his old nemesis, Torrigiani, is doing in Rome?
(a) working for the Pope
(b) befriending the Borgias
(c) selling miniature sculptures
(d) looking for him

2. What does Michelangelo discover that he cannot do?
(a) work in three dimensions
(b) replicate Bertoldo's style
(c) speak French
(d) form ideas of his own

3. What does Michelangelo give his brothers Buonarroto and Giovansimone ?
(a) his house in Florence
(b) money to open their own shop
(c) an audience with Pope Leo X
(d) a place to stay in Rome

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

5. What is the important commission from the Cardinal of San Dionigi that Michelangelo wants to bid on?
(a) the last supper
(b) a statue of David
(c) a crucifixion
(d) a pieta

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Duke really want to punish Michelangelo for?

3. What is the connection of Pope Paul III to the de Medici family?

4. Displeased with Piero de Medici, what are the people of Florence more inclined to listen to?

5. Who wants to bring down the papacy and return Italy to the simple, stark, religious ways of his own beliefs?

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