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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michelangelo recognize he must do to keep his father from taking him away?
(a) earn some money
(b) start working in marble
(c) bring home good reports
(d) stay out of his father's sight

2. Who operates the sculpture garden?
(a) Bottecelli
(b) Bernini
(c) Bertoldo
(d) da Vinci

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

4. At the palace de Medici, with whom does Michelangelo share quarters?
(a) Pietro Torrigiani
(b) Francesco Granacci
(c) Donato Donatello
(d) Bertoldo, the sculpture master

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wants to bring down the papacy and return Italy to the simple, stark, religious ways of his own beliefs?

3. Who asks for two of Ghirlandaio's students to study at his new Medici school?

4. To whom does the sculpture garden belong?

5. What does Michelangelo discover that he cannot do?

(see the answer key)

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