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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would closing their shop in Florence cost Michelangelo's brothers?
(a) a full year's rent
(b) to lose their merchant standing within the community
(c) their places on the city council
(d) the break up of their families

2. From whom does Jacopo Galli secure a commission for Michelangelo?
(a) a shipping magnate
(b) a prince
(c) a cardinal
(d) a magistrate

3. What is something Michelangelo learns from members of the academy?
(a) accounting and the importance of politics
(b) music and dancing
(c) elocution and ethics
(d) literature and the value of writing poetry

4. What do the members of the elite academy discuss and learn about?
(a) political, literary, music and philosophical ideas
(b) art, history, and geography
(c) science, exploration, and evolution
(d) history, religion, and horticulture

5. Who wants to bring down the papacy and return Italy to the simple, stark, religious ways of his own beliefs?
(a) Lorenzo de Medici
(b) Lodovico Buonarroti
(c) Savonarola
(d) Leonardo da Vinci

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does da Vinci align himself with the Borgias?

3. What is Michelangelo's idea of a statue that can be carved from the defective block of marble?

4. What does Michelangelo refuse to do for Piero de Medici?

5. What does Michelangelo's brother, Lionardo, believe his brother has become?

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