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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the important commission from the Cardinal of San Dionigi that Michelangelo wants to bid on?
(a) the last supper
(b) a statue of David
(c) a crucifixion
(d) a pieta

2. Where does Michelangelo go to study?
(a) the Vatican archives
(b) the Plato Academy
(c) the art school of Milan
(d) the library of the Order of Hermits of Santo Spiritu

3. After the festival for his son, where does Piero de Medici invite Michelangelo?
(a) on a trip to visit King Charles VIII of France
(b) back to restore the Sculpture Garden
(c) on a trip to Bologna
(d) back into the de Medici home

4. What does Michelangelo learn the city fathers have sent behind Piero de Medici's back?
(a) a warrant for Piero's arrest
(b) a request for mercenaries from Germany
(c) letters to the Pope
(d) a delegation to Charles VIII

5. What are the people of Florence not happy about?
(a) Michelangelo's crucifix
(b) Piero de Medici's gifts to the poor
(c) the wine crop failure in Tuscany
(d) the lavish wedding of the contessa

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Michelangelo allowed to do for his painting of a neophyte for the Baptism of John panel?

2. Who is the young Contessina de Medici that Michelangelo sees in the sculpture garden?

3. What does Savonarola believe art is?

4. What does Michelangelo carve surreptitiously?

5. Who comes to Rome and is able to help clean out Michelangelo's new quarters?

(see the answer key)

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