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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Giuliano da Sangallo do for Michelangelo?
(a) introduces him to a diplomat
(b) teaches him more about architecture
(c) shows him where to buy marble
(d) helps him when his stepmother dies

2. What scene does Michelangelo want to paint in the Sistine Chapel?
(a) the birth of Jesus
(b) the Genesis story
(c) Noah and the flood
(d) Moses and the Ten Commandments

3. What kind of artwork does Michelangelo accept reluctantly?
(a) frescos
(b) small wood sculpuures
(c) jewelry design
(d) paintings

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is offered to Michelangelo with a commission for him to sculpt the Twelve Apostles for the cathedral?

2. What is the important commission from the Cardinal of San Dionigi that Michelangelo wants to bid on?

3. What does Michelangelo need in order to paint his planned story on the ceiling of the chapel?

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

5. After one year, what is Michelangelo allowed to paint?

(see the answer key)

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