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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes and sees the sculpture Michelangelo did?
(a) Lorenzo
(b) Contessina de Medici
(c) Bertoldo
(d) Lodovico

2. What does Lodovico think sculptors are?
(a) grand artists
(b) little more than being stonecutters
(c) potentially wealthy men
(d) contributors to society

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

4. For his first year as an apprentice, how is Michelangelo treated?
(a) as a messenger boy
(b) as though he were not there
(c) as if he knows nothing about art
(d) as a boy to make the daily coffee

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Michelangelo recognize he must do to keep his father from taking him away?

3. Who can Michelangelo not rely on to pay his apprentice fees?

4. To whom does the sculpture garden belong?

5. After a hard winter, where does Michelangelo's friend Granacci take him?

(see the answer key)

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