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

2. What does Sangallo, Michelangelo's old friend, discover about Michelangelo's problem with the painting?
(a) he needs to slow down the work to let the paint dry
(b) his Florence paint mixture does not work in Rome
(c) he needs to be closer to the surface
(d) he needs to speed up the work before the paint dries

3. Who is perfectly content to keep house and cook for Michelangelo?
(a) Argiento
(b) Buonarroto
(c) Granacci
(d) Lionardo

4. Which former admirer of the artist, now seems to scorn Michelangelo?
(a) Ghirlandaio
(b) Granacci
(c) Rafael
(d) da Vinci

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the members of the elite academy discuss and learn about?

2. What does Bertoldo, the sculptor master, give Michelangelo?

3. At the palace de Medici, with whom does Michelangelo share quarters?

4. What does Michelangelo realize his painting in the Sistine Chapel is supposed to do?

5. What does Granacci tell Michelangelo that Ghirlandaio is willing to do?

(see the answer key)

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