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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 insist painting draped figures allows the artist to do?
(a) ignore the shape and features of the body
(b) work faster to finsh a painting
(c) have less trouble with textures
(d) put emphasis on color over form

2. After three years and a great deal of his personal expense, what happens to Leo X's project?
(a) the road cannot be completed
(b) the project is to be abandoned
(c) the marble shatters
(d) the Pope dies

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

4. What scene does Michelangelo want to paint in the Sistine Chapel?
(a) the Genesis story
(b) the birth of Jesus
(c) Moses and the Ten Commandments
(d) Noah and the flood

5. What does the news of the death of the Pope bring?
(a) riots in the streets of Rome
(b) a rush of orders for Michelangelo
(c) a commission to carve Pope Clement's tomb
(d) the Duke of Urbino to Michelangelo's door

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Lodovico want Michelangelo accepted?

3. What does Lodovico initially refuse to give his son?

4. What does Savonarola believe art is?

5. What does Michelangelo accept that puts him in competition with da Vinci?

(see the answer key)

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