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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) waiting to see a de Medici coming
(b) putting out his paintings for sale
(c) sitting in a tree, looking over the wall
(d) standing outside the school's gates, watching

2. Who agrees to protect Florence from the Borgias?
(a) the Vatican
(b) the Greeks
(c) the French
(d) the Gauls

3. Who is coming to the home of Vittoria Colonna, the Marchesa di Pescara?
(a) King Charles V of France
(b) Prince Olaf of Norway
(c) Pope Clement
(d) the Doge of Milan

4. After Lodovico dies in 1534, what does Michelangelo do?
(a) sees the work finished on San Lorenzo and returns to Rome
(b) appeal to Pope Clement for more commissions
(c) sells everything he has in Florence and goes to Spain
(d) travels to Milan to find new commissions

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reaction of the city when they first see the David in progress?

2. What distresses Michelangelo about many of his commissions?

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

4. What elite group is Michelangelo invited to join?

5. Why can Michelangelo not talk to Pope Julius II?

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