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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the Duke of Urbino, administrator of Julius' will and his heir want from Michelangelo?
(a) to leave Rome and never return
(b) to create a monument to Julius
(c) to finish Julius' tomb
(d) to start over on Julius' tomb

5. Who is coming to the home of Vittoria Colonna, the Marchesa di Pescara?
(a) the Doge of Milan
(b) Prince Olaf of Norway
(c) Pope Clement
(d) King Charles V of France

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

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

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

9. What is the connection of Pope Paul III to the de Medici family?
(a) his sister is married to a de Medici
(b) he once worked for Pope Leo X
(c) he was educated by Lorenzo de Medici
(d) his mother was a de Medici

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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) they remember his de Medici connection
(d) he has no money for taxes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leo X want Michelangelo to work on after his sister dies?

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

3. Who succeeds Pope Julius II as Pope Leo X?

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

5. What does Michelangelo accept that puts him in competition with da Vinci?

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