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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the people of Florence not happy about?
(a) Piero de Medici's gifts to the poor
(b) the wine crop failure in Tuscany
(c) Michelangelo's crucifix
(d) the lavish wedding of the contessa

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

3. What is Michelangelo's position in the home of Cardinal Riario?
(a) the Cardinals confidant
(b) the philosophy instructor
(c) the apprentice architect
(d) one of the Cardinal's skilled workmen

4. What is something Michelangelo learns from members of the academy?
(a) literature and the value of writing poetry
(b) elocution and ethics
(c) accounting and the importance of politics
(d) music and dancing

5. Who gets Michelangelo a short interview with Cardinal Riario?
(a) Giuliano da Sangallo
(b) Andrea Bregno
(c) Leo Baglioni
(d) Jacopo Galli

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Michelangelo carve surreptitiously?

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

4. What is Lodovico unable to do when Michelangelo is given the privilege of living in the de Medici household?

5. What does Michelangelo's brother, Lionardo, believe his brother has become?

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