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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) too good to be hidden in a church
(d) scandalous and revolting

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

3. What is the reaction of the city when they first see the David in progress?
(a) enthralled by what they see
(b) angry over the misuse of the marble
(c) disgusted because it is nude
(d) indifferent, holding back payment

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

5. What would closing their shop in Florence cost Michelangelo's brothers?
(a) a full year's rent
(b) their places on the city council
(c) to lose their merchant standing within the community
(d) the break up of their families

6. What kind of artwork does Michelangelo accept reluctantly?
(a) paintings
(b) small wood sculpuures
(c) jewelry design
(d) frescos

7. The Pope wants the road but what other problem does Michelangelo have?
(a) the Pope will not decide about it
(b) the Pope will not fund it
(c) the Pope will not approve it
(d) the Pope will not send workers

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

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

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

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

12. What does Michelangelo's father accuse him of in letters from Florence?
(a) forgetting his family name
(b) siding with the de Medicis.
(c) spending a fortune on himself
(d) causing problems for his brothers

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

14. What causes the death of Pope Leo X?
(a) a heart attack
(b) a chill caught while on a hunt
(c) the plague
(d) a cup of hemlock

15. Why are Michelangelo and some of his friends under suspicion in Rome?
(a) because they visit with King Charles V of France
(b) because they prefer the nude statues of Michelangelo
(c) because they do not think the Church is infallible
(d) because the rarely attend mass

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Pope Leo offer for Michelangelo to work on?

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

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

5. What does the new Pope allow Duke of Urbino to do?

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