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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eventually, what does Lodovico hope for that will help his family?
(a) Michelangelo will change his mind
(b) connections to de Medici
(c) his son's becoming famous
(d) a new position in Milan

2. Having lost everything, what is the one contract Michelangelo has?
(a) a Risen Christ for Metello Vari
(b) a cupid for the Bishop of Florence
(c) a garden decoration for de Medici
(d) a gravestone for a merchant

3. What does the Duke of Urbino, administrator of Julius' will and his heir want from Michelangelo?
(a) to start over on Julius' tomb
(b) to create a monument to Julius
(c) to leave Rome and never return
(d) to finish Julius' tomb

4. What is Michelangelo's conclusion about his looks after the broken nose?
(a) his work must conceal his looks
(b) now he is handsome
(c) it is something he cannot change
(d) it makes him look eccentric

5. What raw material does Michelangelo use to carve a crucifix?
(a) a large lump of solidified plaster
(b) the hardest available Tuscan walnut
(c) a piece of discarded marble
(d) sandstone taken from the quarry

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Giuliano da Sangallo do for Michelangelo?

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

3. Which former admirer of the artist, now seems to scorn Michelangelo?

4. What does Leo X want Michelangelo to work on after his sister dies?

5. Instead of a commission, what does Cardinal Riario give Michelangelo?

(see the answer key)

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