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Hercules and Cacus - Quiz
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  • 1. Which monster did Hercules kill during his tenth labor?
A) Medusa
B) Cerberus
C) Cacus
D) Hydra
  • 2. What did Cacus steal from Hercules?
A) Cattle
B) Sheep
C) Horses
D) Gold
  • 3. What physical trait of Cacus is mentioned in the text?
A) He was invisible
B) He had wings
C) He had three heads
D) He was fire-belching
  • 4. What does Hercules symbolize in this context?
A) Divine mercy
B) Physical strength
C) Intellectual wisdom
D) Political corruption
  • 5. What does David symbolize in this context?
A) Physical brutality
B) Spiritual strength
C) Military conquest
D) Mathematical precision
  • 6. Who desired both Hercules and David as symbols?
A) The Republicans
B) The Artists
C) The Romans
D) The Medici
  • 7. What is the basic theme represented by the marble group?
A) The father and the son
B) The victor and the vanquished
C) The artist and the muse
D) The teacher and the student
  • 8. According to the text, who represents 'the vanquished'?
A) The republicans
B) The monster
C) Hercules
D) The Medici
  • 9. What does the 'pause' in the marble group suggest regarding the Medici?
A) Leniency
B) Cruelty
C) Indifference
D) Defeat
  • 10. For whom did the 'pause' serve as a warning?
A) The Medici themselves
B) The cattle farmers
C) Those who would not concede
D) The royal family
  • 11. Where is the sculpture 'Hercules and Cacus' located?
A) Uffizi Gallery, Milan
B) Vatican City, Rome
C) Piazza della Signoria, Florence
D) Louvre Museum, Paris
  • 12. Who is the primary sculptor of 'Hercules and Cacus'?
A) Michelangelo
B) Giorgio Vasari
C) Baccio Bandinelli
D) Leonardo da Vinci
  • 13. Between which years was the statue mostly completed?
A) 1530 to 1535
B) 1508 to 1512
C) 1494 to 1500
D) 1525 to 1534
  • 14. What is the total height of the finished statue?
A) 3.20 metres
B) 5.05 metres
C) 4.10 metres
D) 7.50 metres
  • 15. To which famous statue was 'Hercules and Cacus' meant to be a pendant?
A) The Moses
B) Michelangelo's David
C) The Dying Slave
D) The Pieta
  • 16. Who originally commissioned the colossus in 1508?
A) Piero Soderini
B) Cosimo I
C) Alessandro de' Medici
D) Clement VII
  • 17. What type of stone is the statue carved from?
A) Travertine limestone
B) White Carrara marble
C) Bronze
D) Granite
  • 18. What did Vasari claim the project changed to in 1527?
A) Samson Slaying the Philistines
B) The Raising of the Cross
C) Hercules at the Crossroads
D) Cacus in Chains
  • 19. Who assisted the Medici in retaking Florence in 1530?
A) The French Army
B) Pope Leo X
C) Emperor Charles V
D) The Venetian Republic
  • 20. How did Benvenuto Cellini describe the musculature of the sculpture?
A) Too small for the figure
B) A masterpiece of anatomy
C) A sack full of melons
D) Lifeless and rigid
  • 21. What was discovered about the statue during its 1994 restoration?
A) It was originally painted in color
B) It consists of at least twenty pieces
C) It was carved from a single piece of marble
D) It was made of hollow bronze
  • 22. What position did Alessandro de' Medici hold in Florence?
A) Gonfaloniere
B) Duke of Florence
C) Pope
D) King
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