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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Michelangelo insist painting draped figures allows the artist to do?
(a) put emphasis on color over form
(b) ignore the shape and features of the body
(c) have less trouble with textures
(d) work faster to finsh a painting

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

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

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

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. With whom does Piero de Medici refuse to work?

3. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?

4. What does Michelangelo tell his brother about his art?

5. Who operates the sculpture garden?

(see the answer key)

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