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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Pope Julius demand Michelangelo make for him?
(a) a bas relief
(b) a bronze statue
(c) a painting
(d) a marble table

4. Why can Michelangelo not visit the Contessina?
(a) her husband will not allow it
(b) he does not know where to find her
(c) the Pope might become angry with the Ridolfi family
(d) he does not have the proper clothes

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

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

7. What does Michelangelo give his brothers Buonarroto and Giovansimone ?
(a) an audience with Pope Leo X
(b) money to open their own shop
(c) his house in Florence
(d) a place to stay in Rome

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

9. With whom does the Marchesa appear to be affiliated?
(a) a group that believes the Church needs reforms
(b) a group of wealthy patrons of the arts
(c) the de Medici family
(d) the Royal Family of Spain

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

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

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

13. How does Buonarroto's wife cause problems for Michelangelo?
(a) she demands fine gowns and jewels
(b) she produces several children
(c) she becomes a spy for Pope Julius II
(d) she tries to seduce Michelangelo

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

15. What does the Wool Guild own that is of interest to Michelangelo?
(a) a large block of marble
(b) a scaffolding they do not use
(c) a contract for decorating a palace
(d) a studio for rent

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Michelangelo need in order to paint his planned story on the ceiling of the chapel?

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

4. What does the new Pope want to do in the church?

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

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