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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While working on Julius' tomb, what comes Michelangelo's way?
(a) money that has long been owed him
(b) a new house and shop
(c) proposals for a variety of projects
(d) an audience with the Pope

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

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

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

6. Having lost everything, what is the one contract Michelangelo has?
(a) a cupid for the Bishop of Florence
(b) a garden decoration for de Medici
(c) a Risen Christ for Metello Vari
(d) a gravestone for a merchant

7. Why do the city fathers of Florence not receive Michelangelo well?
(a) the unfinished work he left behind
(b) fear of angering the Pope
(c) he has no money for taxes
(d) they remember his de Medici connection

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

9. What does Pope Julius II want Michelangelo to carve for him?
(a) a new marble throne
(b) his tomb in the middle of St. Peter's
(c) another pieta
(d) a copy of the David

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

11. What does Pope Leo offer for Michelangelo to work on?
(a) the walls of a sacristy of the San Lorenzo
(b) a baptismal font for San Lorenzo
(c) the portico of his summer palace
(d) decorations for the Papal apartments

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

13. What does the new Pope want to do in the church?
(a) to right the wrongs of Pope Leo X
(b) execute all artists
(c) tear down the tomb of Pope Julius II
(d) build a new cathedral

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is coming to the home of Vittoria Colonna, the Marchesa di Pescara?

5. As payment to the French, what will Michelangelo carve?

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