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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the project for Leo X is canceled, how does Michelangelo feel?
(a) that the Church is a criminal organization
(b) that his life and reputation are ruined
(c) that the de Medici family is still angry with him
(d) that his life is over

2. What does Pope Julius II want Michelangelo to carve for him?
(a) his tomb in the middle of St. Peter's
(b) another pieta
(c) a copy of the David
(d) a new marble throne

3. What is Michelangelo worried about before going to the Medici school?
(a) how to tell his father
(b) how to dress
(c) at what hour to arrive
(d) where to get his supplies

4. What does Michelangelo's father accuse him of in letters from Florence?
(a) spending a fortune on himself
(b) siding with the de Medicis.
(c) causing problems for his brothers
(d) forgetting his family name

5. For his first year as an apprentice, how is Michelangelo treated?
(a) as though he were not there
(b) as if he knows nothing about art
(c) as a messenger boy
(d) as a boy to make the daily coffee

Short Answer Questions

1. After a hard winter, where does Michelangelo's friend Granacci take him?

2. What does Michelangelo get Ghirlandaio to do for him?

3. What is Michelangelo's position in the home of Cardinal Riario?

4. Instead of a commission, what does Cardinal Riario give Michelangelo?

5. Who asks for two of Ghirlandaio's students to study at his new Medici school?

(see the answer key)

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