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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 get Ghirlandaio to do for him?
(a) allow him to paint his own designs
(b) give him a good recommendation
(c) buy all of his art supplies
(d) pay him a stipend to study there

2. What does Michelangelo tell his brother about his art?
(a) that it is progressing
(b) that it is all he knows
(c) that it is his life
(d) that it is holy

3. Who wants to bring down the papacy and return Italy to the simple, stark, religious ways of his own beliefs?
(a) Lodovico Buonarroti
(b) Savonarola
(c) Lorenzo de Medici
(d) Leonardo da Vinci

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

5. What is Michelangelo's conclusion about his looks after the broken nose?
(a) it makes him look eccentric
(b) his work must conceal his looks
(c) now he is handsome
(d) it is something he cannot change

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Pietro Torrigiani described?

2. If caught in his nighttime study of anatomy, what might the Church do to him?

3. What does Savonarola preach about the de Medici family?

4. Displeased with Piero de Medici, what are the people of Florence more inclined to listen to?

5. What does Michelangelo discover his father believes about Lorenzo de Medici?

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