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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Michelangelo feel about painting frescoes?
(a) he is thrilled to be doing them
(b) he thinks they are difficult to do
(c) he feels he is learning a lot
(d) he does not like doing them

2. What does Michelangelo believe that Ghirlandaio disagrees with?
(a) that painting is a waste of time
(b) that humans should never be painted nude
(c) that sculpture is the greatest art form
(d) that art is a useless occupation

3. How do Michelangelo and Granacci reckon Lodovico will not be harsh when he learns his son is going to de Medici?
(a) if Michelangelo promises to give him his money
(b) if Granacci is present
(c) if his step mother is in the room
(d) if he hears the name de Medici

4. What does Savonarola believe art is?
(a) godly and uplifting
(b) a gift from God
(c) blasphemous and ungodly
(d) neither good nor bad

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michelangelo discover that he cannot do?

2. Who is Il Magnifico?

3. Who is the young Contessina de Medici that Michelangelo sees in the sculpture garden?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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