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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Duke really want to punish Michelangelo for?
(a) for taking so long to do the tomb
(b) for living in the Medicdi palace
(c) for changing the design of the tomb
(d) for abandoning the project in favor of de Medici projects

2. When the project for Leo X is canceled, how does Michelangelo feel?
(a) that the de Medici family is still angry with him
(b) that his life is over
(c) that his life and reputation are ruined
(d) that the Church is a criminal organization

3. For his first year as an apprentice, how is Michelangelo treated?
(a) as a messenger boy
(b) as a boy to make the daily coffee
(c) as though he were not there
(d) as if he knows nothing about art

4. How do Michelangelo and Granacci reckon Lodovico will not be harsh when he learns his son is going to de Medici?
(a) if Michelangelo promises to give him his money
(b) if Granacci is present
(c) if he hears the name de Medici
(d) if his step mother is in the room

5. What does Michelangelo believe that Ghirlandaio disagrees with?
(a) that painting is a waste of time
(b) that art is a useless occupation
(c) that humans should never be painted nude
(d) that sculpture is the greatest art form

Short Answer Questions

1. What saves Michelangelo from losing everything to the Duke of Urbino?

2. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?

3. What are the people of Florence not happy about?

4. What does the news of the death of the Pope bring?

5. What is Lodovico unable to do when Michelangelo is given the privilege of living in the de Medici household?

(see the answer key)

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