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

2. What happens two days after Michelangelo's return to Rome?
(a) Rome burns
(b) Pope Clement dies
(c) the Holy Roman Empire is defeated
(d) St. Peter's basilica collapses

3. What new commission does the Pope give to Michelangelo?
(a) designing the Sistine Chapel
(b) painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
(c) sculpting wall decorations for the Sistine Chapel
(d) sculpting statues of saints for the Sistine Chapel

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

5. What on Michelangelo's wall gains him several enemies?
(a) taking too much time to finish
(b) painting man as God made him
(c) dressing all the people as Florentines
(d) better horses than on da Vinci's wall

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to prevent Michelangelo from finishing the tomb of Pope Julius this time?

2. What kind of artwork does Michelangelo accept reluctantly?

3. Who is being considered to carve the large block of marble that seems to have a defect?

4. Who causes Michelangelo problems over his plans for Julius II's tomb?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Although Pope Clement had been unpopular in Florence, how does Michelangelo view his death?

3. How does Michelangelo finally get the Wool Guild commission?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How is Michelangelo caught up in the politics between Florence and Pope Clement?

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

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