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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Michelangelo spend a lot of his free time near the sculpture garden?
(a) sitting in a tree, looking over the wall
(b) putting out his paintings for sale
(c) waiting to see a de Medici coming
(d) standing outside the school's gates, watching

2. How does Michelangelo learn anatomy at the charity hospital of Santo Spirito?
(a) by dissecting dead bodies
(b) by watching surgeries
(c) by bathing patients
(d) by auditing classes

3. Although unfriendly toward Michelangelo, why does the new Pope cause him little trouble?
(a) Pope Marcellus has epilepsy
(b) the new Pope is too busy trying to raise money
(c) Michelangelo is too old to bother with any more
(d) three weeks into his reign, Pope Marcellus dies

4. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?
(a) running contraband goods
(b) getting drunk and living a wild life
(c) seeing a lover
(d) looking for ways out of Florence

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the thirteen-year-old Michelangelo taken in March of 1488?

2. What does Michelangelo have after his meeting with the Cardinal?

3. How does Buonarroto's wife cause problems for Michelangelo?

4. What does Sangallo, Michelangelo's old friend, discover about Michelangelo's problem with the painting?

5. What happens that signals the approaching end of Michelangelo's life?

(see the answer key)

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