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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. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?
(a) running contraband goods
(b) seeing a lover
(c) getting drunk and living a wild life
(d) looking for ways out of Florence

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

3. What does Piero de Medici want Michelangelo to carve for the birthday of his son, Giuliano?
(a) a snowman
(b) a cupid
(c) a bed
(d) a set of small soldiers

4. Instead of a commission, what does Cardinal Riario give Michelangelo?
(a) a scholarship
(b) the marble
(c) a little money
(d) expenses back to florence

5. Who is perfectly content to keep house and cook for Michelangelo?
(a) Granacci
(b) Buonarroto
(c) Lionardo
(d) Argiento

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one thing Michelangelo is thrilled that he can do?

3. Besides working on his commission, what does Michelangelo enjoy in Galli's home?

4. What is Michelangelo's position in the home of Cardinal Riario?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Michelangelo's ideas depart from the ideas of his teacher.

2. Explain how the antagonism of Bramante developed against Michelangelo.

3. Explain the effect of Michelangelo's broken nose at the hand of Torrigiani.

4. How does Michelangelo react to the Cardinal's failure to give him instructions and permission to start carving?

5. When the Contessina sees Michelangelo after he leaves her house, what transpires?

6. What is the first problem facing Michelangelo before he can study under Bertoldo?

7. Explain the risk Michelangelo takes for his art.

8. What, beside the Bacchus commission, does Michelangelo get from Jacopo Galli?

9. What is the result of Michelangelo's carving something for Piero de Medici?

10. What does Lorenzo de Medici reveal to Michelangelo about his training?

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