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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michelangelo's brother, Lionardo, believe his brother has become?
(a) overly educated in the arts
(b) absent minded and useless
(c) subservient and docile
(d) corrupted by power and money

2. Why does Michelangelo arrange for loans?
(a) to pay his father's debt
(b) to buy a workshop
(c) to pay the Cardinal
(d) to send for his family

3. What does Michelangelo insist on from the Pope?
(a) that only he have the keys to the chapel
(b) that Swiss Guards surround the chapel at night
(c) that he be given extra money for paints
(d) that he sleep in the chapel

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

5. Who asks for two of Ghirlandaio's students to study at his new Medici school?
(a) Baldinelli
(b) Bertoldo
(c) Il Magnifico
(d) Bottecelli

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Michelangelo feel about painting frescoes?

2. Who is gaining in popularity and importance in Rome to Michelangelo's advantage?

3. What does Torrigiani do to Michelangelo that causes him to flee the palace?

4. What does Michelangelo believe that Ghirlandaio disagrees with?

5. What work of da Vinci's does Giuliano want to show Michelangelo?

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