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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lodovico think sculptors are?
(a) potentially wealthy men
(b) grand artists
(c) little more than being stonecutters
(d) contributors to society

3. What does Michelangelo carve surreptitiously?
(a) a lion
(b) a faun
(c) a face
(d) a cat

4. What raw material does Michelangelo use to carve a crucifix?
(a) sandstone taken from the quarry
(b) a piece of discarded marble
(c) the hardest available Tuscan walnut
(d) a large lump of solidified plaster

5. After a hard winter, where does Michelangelo's friend Granacci take him?
(a) to Venice
(b) to a museum
(c) to a sculpture garden
(d) to an art festival

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wants to bring down the papacy and return Italy to the simple, stark, religious ways of his own beliefs?

2. What is Michelangelo's response when his father tells him he cannot afford to have pride?

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

4. Because he likes Michelangelo's cupid so well, what does Jacopo Galli commission him to sculpt?

5. What does Michelangelo learn his old nemesis, Torrigiani, is doing in Rome?

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