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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is offered to Michelangelo with a commission for him to sculpt the Twelve Apostles for the cathedral?
(a) a house
(b) a new wardrobe
(c) a large block of marble
(d) a seat on the city council

2. What does Michelangelo need in order to paint his planned story on the ceiling of the chapel?
(a) the Pope's permission
(b) someone to mix his paints
(c) a large supply of paint
(d) a system of ropes and pullies

3. What happens to all the marbles Michelangelo collects for the St. Lorenzo church?
(a) it is thrown into the tiber rriver
(b) it is crushed and used for road paving
(c) it is left where it lay affter the accident
(d) it is used for tiling the floor of the duomo

4. Who is the female friend Michelangelo visits in Bologna?
(a) Clarissa
(b) Sofia
(c) the Contessina
(d) Gina

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

6. What happens to prevent Michelangelo from finishing the tomb of Pope Julius this time?
(a) the fact that he has no money for the supplies he needs
(b) the election of Alessandro Farnese to the papacy as Pope Paul III
(c) a war with the King of France breaks out
(d) the tomb is vandalized by religious fanatics

7. Before the David statue can be placed, what happens?
(a) the marble cracks
(b) the Cardinal wants it
(c) vandals attack it
(d) it falls over

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

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

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

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

12. What does Michelangelo do after accepting the Cardinal's commission?
(a) moves back to Rome
(b) goes into hiding
(c) rents an apartment and sends for Argiento
(d) gives all his money to Lodovico

13. What happens when Pope Leo insists on Pietrasanta marble, not Carraini marble?
(a) the Carraini people run away
(b) the Carraini people attack Michelangelo
(c) the Carraini people destroy the road
(d) the Carraini people raise the price of Pietrasanta marble

14. Pope Paul III likes Michelangelo's nudes in the Sistine Chapel but how do others view them?
(a) too ethereal to understand
(b) old fashioned and plain
(c) scandalous and revolting
(d) too good to be hidden in a church

15. Who replaces Pope Leo X?
(a) Pope Pius II
(b) Pope Clement
(c) Pope Alexander
(d) Pope Adrian

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is worked out that the Duke of Urbino will accept instead of the finished tomb?

3. Why does the city of Florence bribe Caesar Borgia?

4. From whom does Jacopo Galli secure a commission for Michelangelo?

5. What does Michelangelo insist on from the Pope?

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