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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the city of Florence bribe Caesar Borgia?
(a) to lower Florence's taxes
(b) not to take Florence artists to Rome
(c) not to conquer Florence
(d) to come and rule Florence

3. What does Sangallo, Michelangelo's old friend, discover about Michelangelo's problem with the painting?
(a) he needs to speed up the work before the paint dries
(b) he needs to be closer to the surface
(c) his Florence paint mixture does not work in Rome
(d) he needs to slow down the work to let the paint dry

4. Why is Michelangelo unable to show exactly how much he received from Pope Julius?
(a) he is not allowed to travel to Florence to get his receipts
(b) his recordkeeping is poor
(c) his receipts were lost in a fire
(d) he never kept any receipts

5. What commission has Bramante won from the Pope?
(a) to add on to the Vatican
(b) to carve the Pope's tomb
(c) to build a new St. Peter's
(d) to design the tomb Michelangelo will carve

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Michelangelo not talk to Pope Julius II?

2. Why are Michelangelo and some of his friends under suspicion in Rome?

3. What new commission does the Pope give to Michelangelo?

4. What causes the death of Pope Leo X?

5. Who is the young man Michelangelo becomes infatuated with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What political unrest occurs while Michelangelo works on the David?

2. How does Bramante complicate the start of Pope Julius II's tomb?

3. Why does Michelangelo not close up his brothers' unprofitable shop?

4. What does Michelangelo realize as he studies the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

5. What demand does Pope Julius make on Michelangelo that he does not want to do?

6. How does Michelangelo react to the cancellation of the San Lorenzo project?

7. How does Pope Paul III outmaneuver Michelangelo over the matter of Pope Julius' tomb?

8. How do the Bolognese assign the guilt of association to Michelangelo?

9. How does Pope Leo X, Giovanni de Medici, the first of the de Medici Popes, use Vatican finances?

10. How do Michelangelo and da Vinci end up working on the same project?

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