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Biography: "Michelangelo: Artist and Man"

1. Michelangelo was born in __________.

A) 1075.
B) 1275.
C) 1475.
D) 1875.

2. Michelangelo's __________ died when he was only six years old.

A) Mother.
B) Grandfather.
C) Pet dog, Leonardo.
D) Sister.

3. When Michelangelo was ten years old, his father moved the family to __________.

A) Miami.
B) Paris.
C) London.
D) Florence.

4. Humanism, which emphasized __________ interests over those of the afterlife, was taking hold in Florence while Michelangelo was there.

A) Godly.
B) Worldly.
C) Christian.
D) Spiritual.

5. As an apprentice, what painting technique did Michelangelo learn?

A) Fresco.
B) Oil painting.
C) Watercolor painting.
D) Finger painting.

6. Who was the most powerful man in Florence, and a patron of the arts, who allowed the young Michelangelo to study in his palace and sculpture garden?

A) Leonardo da Vinci.
B) Michelangelo's father.
C) Lorenzo de'Medici.
D) Bill de Clinton.

7. Michelangelo was influenced by the Humanistic values of the Renaissance, as well as the __________ beliefs that were prevalent at the time.

A) Satanic.
B) Scientific.
C) Weird.
D) Christian.

8. Which of Michelangelo's sculptures, completed in 1500, depicts the Virgin Mary tenderly cradling the body of Christ?

A) The Pieta.
B) The Pita Bread.
C) The David.
D) The Virgin of the Rocks.

9. Michelangelo carved his __________ across the front of Mary's gown on the Pieta.

A) Phone number.
B) Name.
C) Asking price.
D) Astrological sign.

10. In 1508, Pope Julius II gave Michelangelo the most challenging assignment of his life: to paint the ceiling of __________.

A) The Pope's gymnasium.
B) St. Peter's.
C) The Sistine Chapel.
D) Leonardo's house.

11. Michelangelo initially didn't want the commission to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. True or false?

12. After he completed the Sistine Chapel ceiling in 1512, Michelangelo was hailed as the __________ Michelangelo.

A) Divine.
B) Old.
C) Expensive.
D) Paint-smeared.

13. At 59 years of age, Michelangelo returned to the Sistine Chapel to paint another fresco, this one on the __________.

A) Floor.
B) Front doors.
C) Wall behind the altar.
D) Outside walls.

14. Michelangelo included his own self-portrait in the __________ as a flayed human skin.

A) Pieta.
B) David.
C) Creation of Adam.
D) Last Judgment.

15. Michelangelo's __________ remains one of the most famous and copied landmarks in all of architecture.

A) Eiffel Tower.
B) Dome of St. Peter's.
C) Graceland.
D) Tempietto.

16. Michelangelo died in __________, at the age of eighty-nine.

A) 1264.
B) 1564.
C) 1864.
D) 1964.

17. Some of Michelangelo's assistants worked for him for thirty years, at a time when the average life expectancy was __________.

A) 21.
B) 40.
C) 85.
D) 100.
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