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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Michelangelo worried about before going to the Medici school?
(a) at what hour to arrive
(b) how to tell his father
(c) where to get his supplies
(d) how to dress

2. What does Giuliano da Sangallo do for Michelangelo?
(a) helps him when his stepmother dies
(b) shows him where to buy marble
(c) introduces him to a diplomat
(d) teaches him more about architecture

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

4. Who is Cardinal Riario di San Giorgio looking for?
(a) the sculptor Dell'Arca
(b) Signor Aldovrandi
(c) the man who had sculpted a cupid he owns
(d) Charles VIII of France

5. Why can Michelangelo not visit the Contessina?
(a) he does not know where to find her
(b) he does not have the proper clothes
(c) her husband will not allow it
(d) the Pope might become angry with the Ridolfi family

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lodovico initially refuse to give his son?

2. Because he likes Michelangelo's cupid so well, what does Jacopo Galli commission him to sculpt?

3. What does Granacci tell Michelangelo that Ghirlandaio is willing to do?

4. Who is perfectly content to keep house and cook for Michelangelo?

5. What is Michelangelo expected to learn about?

(see the answer key)

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