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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 carve surreptitiously?
(a) a cat
(b) a face
(c) a faun
(d) a lion

2. What does Piero de Medici want Michelangelo to carve for the birthday of his son, Giuliano?
(a) a set of small soldiers
(b) a snowman
(c) a bed
(d) a cupid

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

4. What is Michelangelo allowed to do for his painting of a neophyte for the Baptism of John panel?
(a) paint with close supervision
(b) bring in a nude model
(c) redesign the panel
(d) work with two other apprentices

5. What are the people of Florence not happy about?
(a) the wine crop failure in Tuscany
(b) the lavish wedding of the contessa
(c) Piero de Medici's gifts to the poor
(d) Michelangelo's crucifix

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bertoldo, the sculptor master, give Michelangelo?

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

4. At the palace de Medici, with whom does Michelangelo share quarters?

5. How do Michelangelo and Granacci reckon Lodovico will not be harsh when he learns his son is going to de Medici?

(see the answer key)

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