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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After one year, what is Michelangelo allowed to paint?
(a) still lifes
(b) small portraits
(c) practice canvases
(d) frescoes

2. Who operates the sculpture garden?
(a) Bernini
(b) Bottecelli
(c) Bertoldo
(d) da Vinci

3. For whom does Michelangelo offer to carve something?
(a) his father
(b) the Contessina
(c) Piero de Medici
(d) the church

4. What does Torrigiani do to Michelangelo that causes him to flee the palace?
(a) breaks Michelangelo's arm
(b) breaks Michelangelo's nose
(c) breaks Michelangelo's sculpture
(d) breaks Michelangelo's tools

5. Who comes to Rome and is able to help clean out Michelangelo's new quarters?
(a) his friend Granacci
(b) his brother Buonarroto
(c) his brother Lionardo
(d) his father Lodovico

6. What is something Michelangelo learns from members of the academy?
(a) literature and the value of writing poetry
(b) music and dancing
(c) accounting and the importance of politics
(d) elocution and ethics

7. What does Michelangelo recognize he must do to keep his father from taking him away?
(a) bring home good reports
(b) stay out of his father's sight
(c) earn some money
(d) start working in marble

8. What does Michelangelo get Ghirlandaio to do for him?
(a) pay him a stipend to study there
(b) give him a good recommendation
(c) buy all of his art supplies
(d) allow him to paint his own designs

9. What is Michelangelo's position in the home of Cardinal Riario?
(a) the Cardinals confidant
(b) the apprentice architect
(c) the philosophy instructor
(d) one of the Cardinal's skilled workmen

10. Where does Lodovico want Michelangelo accepted?
(a) a merchant guild
(b) Ghirlandaio's school
(c) the Plato Academy
(d) the Florentine guard

11. What is the first of Michelangelo's problems if he wants to study under Bertoldo?
(a) two years left as an apprentice for Ghirlandaio
(b) the attitude of his father
(c) Ghirlandaio's attitude toward sculpture
(d) money to buy sculpting tools

12. What is Ghirlandaio reluctant to do?
(a) continue Michaelangelo's stipend
(b) keep Michaelangelo as a student
(c) cater to the Medici family
(d) release his student

13. 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 eldest daughter of Lorenzo
(d) the youngest daughter of Lorenzo

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

15. How is Pietro Torrigiani described?
(a) a deformed genius
(b) a well-built, handsome young man
(c) a plain and untalented boy
(d) a short, fat hanger on

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Piero de Medici refuse to work?

2. Who comes and sees the sculpture Michelangelo did?

3. What is Lodovico unable to do when Michelangelo is given the privilege of living in the de Medici household?

4. Who wants to bring down the papacy and return Italy to the simple, stark, religious ways of his own beliefs?

5. What does Michelangelo carve surreptitiously?

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