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

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

3. What does Michelangelo discover that he cannot do?
(a) work in three dimensions
(b) replicate Bertoldo's style
(c) speak French
(d) form ideas of his own

4. After a hard winter, where does Michelangelo's friend Granacci take him?
(a) to a sculpture garden
(b) to Venice
(c) to an art festival
(d) to a museum

5. What does Bertoldo, the sculptor master, give Michelangelo?
(a) much criticism of what he does
(b) much praise and encouragement
(c) new sculpting tools
(d) a special workplace

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Michelangelo's response when his father tells him he cannot afford to have pride?

2. How does Michelangelo spend a lot of his free time near the sculpture garden?

3. What does Torrigiani do to Michelangelo that causes him to flee the palace?

4. After the death of Lorenzo de Medici, where does Michelangelo find himself?

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

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