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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Cardinal Riario di San Giorgio looking for?
(a) Signor Aldovrandi
(b) the sculptor Dell'Arca
(c) Charles VIII of France
(d) the man who had sculpted a cupid he owns

2. Who operates the sculpture garden?
(a) Bernini
(b) Bottecelli
(c) Bertoldo
(d) da Vinci

3. Who wants to bring down the papacy and return Italy to the simple, stark, religious ways of his own beliefs?
(a) Lodovico Buonarroti
(b) Leonardo da Vinci
(c) Lorenzo de Medici
(d) Savonarola

4. What is Lodovico unable to do when Michelangelo is given the privilege of living in the de Medici household?
(a) utter a word
(b) believe his ears
(c) refuse Lorenzo de Medici
(d) stand up

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks for two of Ghirlandaio's students to study at his new Medici school?

2. How does Charles VIII of France want to claim the Kingdom of Naples?

3. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?

4. Because he likes Michelangelo's cupid so well, what does Jacopo Galli commission him to sculpt?

5. What does Giuliano da Sangallo do for Michelangelo?

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