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

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

3. What work of da Vinci's does Giuliano want to show Michelangelo?
(a) a lens to improve vision
(b) a machine that allows a man to fly
(c) a new kind of carriage
(d) experiments in alchemy

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kind of artwork does Michelangelo accept reluctantly?

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

5. What does Pope Leo X want Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Michelangelo's father add stress to his son while he is working on Pope Julius' tomb?

3. Describe briefly the attraction Michelangelo feels toward Tommaso Cavalieri.

4. Briefly describe the intrigue going on in Rome while Michelangelo works on the Sistine Chapel.

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

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

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

8. Briefly explain the problem Michelangelo has with the Carraini over Leo's insistence on using Pietrasanta marble.

9. What problem does Michelangelo learn about that holds up awarding the Wool Guild commission?

10. What is the political shift in the Vatican after Leo X dies?

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