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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What saves Michelangelo from losing everything to the Duke of Urbino?
(a) Pope Adrian has a change of heart
(b) Jacopo Galli testifies in favor of Michelangelo
(c) The next Pope is Giulio de Medici, who becomes Pope Clement VII
(d) the Duke dies of a stroke

2. What distresses Michelangelo about many of his commissions?
(a) not paying him what they are worth
(b) having to finish too quickly
(c) having to comply with other people's ideas
(d) not getting enough of them

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

4. What is Michelangelo's idea of a statue that can be carved from the defective block of marble?
(a) a pieta
(b) David
(c) Hercules
(d) St. Paul

5. After three years and a great deal of his personal expense, what happens to Leo X's project?
(a) the Pope dies
(b) the road cannot be completed
(c) the marble shatters
(d) the project is to be abandoned

6. Why can Michelangelo not talk to Pope Julius II?
(a) the Swiss guard will not let him pass
(b) there is a waiting list for months
(c) he cannot gain an audience
(d) the Pope is in Bologna

7. What does da Vinci tell Michelangelo that he has brought to its limits with nothing for others to perfect?
(a) sculpting tombs
(b) polishing marble like the pieta
(c) painting the nude figure
(d) larger than life sculptures

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

9. Why does Lodovico not understand Michelangelo's financial situation?
(a) he is very poor at numbers
(b) he thinks Michelangelo lies to him
(c) others work for the Vatican and become rich
(d) he forgets how much Michelangelo has given the family

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

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

12. What does the news of the death of the Pope bring?
(a) the Duke of Urbino to Michelangelo's door
(b) riots in the streets of Rome
(c) a rush of orders for Michelangelo
(d) a commission to carve Pope Clement's tomb

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

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

15. What does Michelangelo realize his painting in the Sistine Chapel is supposed to do?
(a) draw the eye away from the floor
(b) to mask the problems created by others
(c) uplift the worshipers who will come there
(d) make it look larger than it is

Short Answer Questions

1. When do Michelangelo and the Contessina finally talk about their mutual love?

2. Who is the female friend Michelangelo visits in Bologna?

3. What does Julius II give Michelangelo?

4. With whom does the Marchesa appear to be affiliated?

5. What happens when Pope Leo insists on Pietrasanta marble, not Carraini marble?

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