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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Michelangelo worried about before going to the Medici school?
(a) at what hour to arrive
(b) how to tell his father
(c) where to get his supplies
(d) how to dress

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

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

4. In addition to Michelangelo's other problems, what happens to the Cardinal of San Dionigi?
(a) he is sent to be the Cardinal of Germany
(b) he dies before the pieta is finished
(c) he loses his mind and cannot remember Michelangelo
(d) he is excommunicated

5. What work of da Vinci's does Giuliano want to show Michelangelo?
(a) a lens to improve vision
(b) a new kind of carriage
(c) a machine that allows a man to fly
(d) experiments in alchemy

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Michelangelo have trouble with the Bolognese people?

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

3. As Michelangelo progresses, what does he learn about life?

4. What does the new Pope want to do in the church?

5. What does Michelangelo carve surreptitiously?

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