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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the members of the elite academy discuss and learn about?
(a) political, literary, music and philosophical ideas
(b) science, exploration, and evolution
(c) history, religion, and horticulture
(d) art, history, and geography

2. What does Lodovico initially refuse to give his son?
(a) permission to attend the de Medici school
(b) money to live on
(c) the new equipment he will need
(d) new clothes fitting for the Medici palace

3. What does Michelangelo's brother, Lionardo, believe his brother has become?
(a) overly educated in the arts
(b) absent minded and useless
(c) subservient and docile
(d) corrupted by power and money

4. Who is Il Magnifico?
(a) Pope Julius II
(b) the Doge of Milan
(c) Domenico Ghirlandaio
(d) Lorenzo de Medici

5. If caught in his nighttime study of anatomy, what might the Church do to him?
(a) put him in a monastery
(b) put him to death
(c) dismiss him from school
(d) put him in prison

Short Answer Questions

1. Who can Michelangelo not rely on to pay his apprentice fees?

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

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

4. What does Michelangelo insist painting draped figures allows the artist to do?

5. As Michelangelo progresses, what does he learn about life?

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