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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the new Pope allow Duke of Urbino to do?
(a) ban Michelangelo from working
(b) take Michelangelo to court
(c) make Michelangelo finish the tomb
(d) confiscate all Michelangelo's marble

2. What does the Duke really want to punish Michelangelo for?
(a) for taking so long to do the tomb
(b) for living in the Medicdi palace
(c) for abandoning the project in favor of de Medici projects
(d) for changing the design of the tomb

3. What distresses Michelangelo about many of his commissions?
(a) not getting enough of them
(b) having to comply with other people's ideas
(c) having to finish too quickly
(d) not paying him what they are worth

4. What does Michelangelo accept that puts him in competition with da Vinci?
(a) an art exhibit in the palizzo
(b) a design for a new cathedral
(c) a sculpture of the Mona Lisa
(d) painting a wall next to his

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pope Leo offer for Michelangelo to work on?

2. Who replaces Pope Leo X?

3. What would closing their shop in Florence cost Michelangelo's brothers?

4. What does Pope Paul III want Michelangelo to do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Michelangelo react when he is refused admittance to see Pope Julius II?

2. How do the Bolognese assign the guilt of association to Michelangelo?

3. What audacious request does Pope Leo make of Michelangelo while he works on Julius' tomb?

4. What does Michelangelo hope for after Pope Julius II dies?

5. Briefly explain the problem Michelangelo has with the Carraini over Leo's insistence on using Pietrasanta marble.

6. How does Michelangelo's father add stress to his son while he is working on Pope Julius' tomb?

7. Although Pope Clement had been unpopular in Florence, how does Michelangelo view his death?

8. How do Michelangelo and da Vinci end up working on the same project?

9. How does Pope Leo X, Giovanni de Medici, the first of the de Medici Popes, use Vatican finances?

10. Describe briefly the attraction Michelangelo feels toward Tommaso Cavalieri.

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