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

2. who brings Michelangelo to Ghirlandaio?
(a) Baldinelli
(b) Lorenzo de Medici
(c) Lodovico Buonarroti
(d) Francesco Granacci

3. What is the misconception his family has of Michelangelo?
(a) he is in trouble with the law
(b) he is made of money
(c) he is a total failure
(d) he has contracts he hasn't told them about

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

5. What does Michelangelo have after his meeting with the Cardinal?
(a) a commission to carvea pieta
(b) a new workshop to work in
(c) a letter of introduction to the Pope
(d) a seven-foot block of marble and no money

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the festival for his son, where does Piero de Medici invite Michelangelo?

3. Who is Il Magnifico?

4. What does Michelangelo refuse to do for Piero de Medici?

5. What does Savonarola believe art is?

(see the answer key)

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