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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As payment to the French, what will Michelangelo carve?
(a) something for Charles VIII
(b) a tomb for the King
(c) a monument to set up in Paris
(d) something for the Marechal de' Gie

2. What do the members of the elite academy discuss and learn about?
(a) art, history, and geography
(b) history, religion, and horticulture
(c) political, literary, music and philosophical ideas
(d) science, exploration, and evolution

3. For whom does Michelangelo offer to carve something?
(a) Piero de Medici
(b) the church
(c) the Contessina
(d) his father

4. What does Michelangelo discover that he cannot do?
(a) work in three dimensions
(b) form ideas of his own
(c) speak French
(d) replicate Bertoldo's style

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Michelangelo's conclusion about his looks after the broken nose?

2. What scene does Michelangelo want to paint in the Sistine Chapel?

3. What does Michelangelo insist painting draped figures allows the artist to do?

4. Why does da Vinci align himself with the Borgias?

5. What does Ghirlandaio want Michelangelo to do?

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