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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is the Contessina sent as she nears marriageable age?
(a) to school in Milan
(b) to a convent
(c) to live in Rome
(d) to live with the Ridolfi

3. What does Michelangelo believe that Ghirlandaio disagrees with?
(a) that sculpture is the greatest art form
(b) that humans should never be painted nude
(c) that art is a useless occupation
(d) that painting is a waste of time

4. What does Michelangelo recognize he must do to keep his father from taking him away?
(a) bring home good reports
(b) earn some money
(c) start working in marble
(d) stay out of his father's sight

5. What causes Savonarola to agree that he is a heretic and then recant?
(a) the de Medici family
(b) instructions form the Pope
(c) a debate in Florence
(d) several days of torture

Short Answer Questions

1. After one year, what is Michelangelo allowed to paint?

2. What do the members of the elite academy discuss and learn about?

3. If caught in his nighttime study of anatomy, what might the Church do to him?

4. Who operates the sculpture garden?

5. What does Michelangelo learn the city fathers have sent behind Piero de Medici's back?

(see the answer key)

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