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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?
(a) getting drunk and living a wild life
(b) running contraband goods
(c) seeing a lover
(d) looking for ways out of Florence

2. What is the first of Michelangelo's problems if he wants to study under Bertoldo?
(a) the attitude of his father
(b) Ghirlandaio's attitude toward sculpture
(c) money to buy sculpting tools
(d) two years left as an apprentice for Ghirlandaio

3. What is one thing Michelangelo is thrilled that he can do?
(a) sleep until noon
(b) see and talk to Contessina
(c) travel in the de Medici coach
(d) eat in the dinning room

4. What does Michelangelo's brother, Lionardo, believe his brother has become?
(a) subservient and docile
(b) corrupted by power and money
(c) absent minded and useless
(d) overly educated in the arts

5. Displeased with Piero de Medici, what are the people of Florence more inclined to listen to?
(a) Savonarola's sermons praising Piero de Medici
(b) Savonarola's sermons about the excesses of evil
(c) speakers promoting a democratic government
(d) proposals for annexing Florence to France

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michelangelo carve surreptitiously?

2. Who succeeds Pope Julius II as Pope Leo X?

3. What happens two days after Michelangelo's return to Rome?

4. What does Julius II give Michelangelo?

5. For his first year as an apprentice, how is Michelangelo treated?

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