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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Pope Leo offer for Michelangelo to work on?
(a) a baptismal font for San Lorenzo
(b) decorations for the Papal apartments
(c) the portico of his summer palace
(d) the walls of a sacristy of the San Lorenzo

3. What distresses Michelangelo about many of his commissions?
(a) not getting enough of them
(b) not paying him what they are worth
(c) having to finish too quickly
(d) having to comply with other people's ideas

4. What causes the death of Pope Leo X?
(a) a heart attack
(b) a cup of hemlock
(c) a chill caught while on a hunt
(d) the plague

5. What does Michelangelo tell his brother about his art?
(a) that it is his life
(b) that it is progressing
(c) that it is holy
(d) that it is all he knows

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michelangelo discover that he cannot do?

2. After Lodovico dies in 1534, what does Michelangelo do?

3. What does the new Pope allow Duke of Urbino to do?

4. What does Savonarola believe art is?

5. What is something Michelangelo learns from members of the academy?

(see the answer key)

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