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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) take Michelangelo to court
(b) ban Michelangelo from working
(c) confiscate all Michelangelo's marble
(d) make Michelangelo finish the tomb

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

3. What does Julius II give Michelangelo?
(a) a work area he must pay rent on
(b) an order to redesign his tomb
(c) a small stipend which he sends to his father
(d) a house he must pay rent on but no money

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

5. Who is being considered to carve the large block of marble that seems to have a defect?
(a) Donato Donatello
(b) Domenico Ghirlandaio
(c) Sandro Bottecelli
(d) Leonardo da Vinci

Short Answer Questions

1. Who replaces Pope Leo X?

2. How does Buonarroto's wife cause problems for Michelangelo?

3. What does Leonardo da Vinci do that irritates Michelangelo?

4. Who is the young man Michelangelo becomes infatuated with?

5. What happens to all the marbles Michelangelo collects for the St. Lorenzo church?

Short Essay Questions

1. What family problem does Michelangelo attempt to solve with his brothers?

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

3. How is Michelangelo caught up in the politics between Florence and Pope Clement?

4. What problem does Michelangelo learn about that holds up awarding the Wool Guild commission?

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

6. What demand does Pope Julius make on Michelangelo that he does not want to do?

7. Why does Michelangelo not close up his brothers' unprofitable shop?

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

9. Why is Michelangelo disenchanted with the work he is doing for a cardinal while thinking about the Wool Guild marble?

10. How does Michelangelo finally get the Wool Guild commission?

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