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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Michelangelo's problem for getting the Pietrasanta marble to Rome?
(a) the marble is too fragile
(b) no one will help him
(c) no road is available
(d) no wagon is big enough

2. What does Leo X want Michelangelo to work on after his sister dies?
(a) the de Medici family burial vault
(b) the statue of St. Teresa
(c) the Contessina's tomb
(d) the de Medici family church, San Lorenzo

3. Who succeeds Pope Julius II as Pope Leo X?
(a) the Cardinal of San Dionigi
(b) Cardinal Riario
(c) Giovanni de Medici
(d) Jacopo Galli

4. What does Julius II give Michelangelo?
(a) a small stipend which he sends to his father
(b) an order to redesign his tomb
(c) a house he must pay rent on but no money
(d) a work area he must pay rent on

5. Why does the city of Florence bribe Caesar Borgia?
(a) to lower Florence's taxes
(b) not to conquer Florence
(c) to come and rule Florence
(d) not to take Florence artists to Rome

6. What does the new Pope allow Duke of Urbino to do?
(a) confiscate all Michelangelo's marble
(b) make Michelangelo finish the tomb
(c) ban Michelangelo from working
(d) take Michelangelo to court

7. What is worked out that the Duke of Urbino will accept instead of the finished tomb?
(a) a written apology from Michelangelo
(b) an extension of time to finish the tomb
(c) an assignment as the Cardinal of Milan
(d) a statue of Moses and two other statues in Michelangelo's home

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

9. What does Pope Leo X want Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo to do?
(a) become friends
(b) return to Florence
(c) design his summer villa
(d) work together on the sistine Chapel

10. What does Leonardo da Vinci do that irritates Michelangelo?
(a) makes jokes about Michelangelo
(b) challenge him to a carving duel
(c) steals his commission
(d) openly denigrates sculpture

11. As payment to the French, what will Michelangelo carve?
(a) a monument to set up in Paris
(b) something for the Marechal de' Gie
(c) something for Charles VIII
(d) a tomb for the King

12. Why does Michelangelo have trouble with the Bolognese people?
(a) because he works for the Pope
(b) because he has no money
(c) because he is from Florence
(d) because he spurns Clarissa

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

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

15. From whom does Jacopo Galli secure a commission for Michelangelo?
(a) a magistrate
(b) a shipping magnate
(c) a cardinal
(d) a prince

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michelangelo give his brothers Buonarroto and Giovansimone ?

2. What causes the death of Pope Leo X?

3. What commission has Bramante won from the Pope?

4. What does Pope Julius II want Michelangelo to carve for him?

5. Before the David statue can be placed, what happens?

(see the answer keys)

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