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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michelangelo refuse to do for Piero de Medici?
(a) design jewelry for his wife
(b) paint a portrait of his wife
(c) carve a bust of his wife
(d) escort his wife

2. How does Michelangelo learn anatomy at the charity hospital of Santo Spirito?
(a) by bathing patients
(b) by auditing classes
(c) by watching surgeries
(d) by dissecting dead bodies

3. Eventually, what does Lodovico hope for that will help his family?
(a) his son's becoming famous
(b) Michelangelo will change his mind
(c) connections to de Medici
(d) a new position in Milan

4. Displeased with Piero de Medici, what are the people of Florence more inclined to listen to?
(a) proposals for annexing Florence to France
(b) Savonarola's sermons praising Piero de Medici
(c) speakers promoting a democratic government
(d) Savonarola's sermons about the excesses of evil

5. Who is the young Contessina de Medici that Michelangelo sees in the sculpture garden?
(a) the mother of Lorenzo
(b) the wife of Lorenzo
(c) the youngest daughter of Lorenzo
(d) the eldest daughter of Lorenzo

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Savonarola believe art is?

2. How does Michelangelo feel about painting frescoes?

3. How does Charles VIII of France want to claim the Kingdom of Naples?

4. What is the first of Michelangelo's problems if he wants to study under Bertoldo?

5. For his first year as an apprentice, how is Michelangelo treated?

(see the answer key)

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