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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What scene does Michelangelo want to paint in the Sistine Chapel?
(a) the Genesis story
(b) the birth of Jesus
(c) Noah and the flood
(d) Moses and the Ten Commandments

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

3. Why can Michelangelo not visit the Contessina?
(a) he does not have the proper clothes
(b) the Pope might become angry with the Ridolfi family
(c) her husband will not allow it
(d) he does not know where to find her

4. What is Michelangelo's idea of a statue that can be carved from the defective block of marble?
(a) a pieta
(b) David
(c) Hercules
(d) St. Paul

5. What does the Wool Guild own that is of interest to Michelangelo?
(a) a scaffolding they do not use
(b) a large block of marble
(c) a contract for decorating a palace
(d) a studio for rent

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Michelangelo spend a lot of his free time near the sculpture garden?

2. What causes Savonarola to agree that he is a heretic and then recant?

3. How does Michelangelo set himself apart at the Guild Hall of Signor Ghirlandaio?

4. Who comes and sees the sculpture Michelangelo did?

5. What does Michelangelo believe that Ghirlandaio disagrees with?

(see the answer key)

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