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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Michelangelo carve surreptitiously?
(a) a lion
(b) a faun
(c) a cat
(d) a face

3. Eventually, what does Lodovico hope for that will help his family?
(a) connections to de Medici
(b) a new position in Milan
(c) his son's becoming famous
(d) Michelangelo will change his mind

4. Who asks for two of Ghirlandaio's students to study at his new Medici school?
(a) Baldinelli
(b) Bottecelli
(c) Il Magnifico
(d) Bertoldo

5. How does Michelangelo spend a lot of his free time near the sculpture garden?
(a) putting out his paintings for sale
(b) sitting in a tree, looking over the wall
(c) standing outside the school's gates, watching
(d) waiting to see a de Medici coming

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the thirteen-year-old Michelangelo taken in March of 1488?

2. What does Lodovico think sculptors are?

3. Who comes and sees the sculpture Michelangelo did?

4. What is Michelangelo worried about before going to the Medici school?

5. What does Ghirlandaio want Michelangelo to do?

(see the answer key)

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