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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 if he knows nothing about art
(d) as though he were not there

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

4. Displeased with Piero de Medici, what are the people of Florence more inclined to listen to?
(a) proposals for annexing Florence to France
(b) speakers promoting a democratic government
(c) Savonarola's sermons about the excesses of evil
(d) Savonarola's sermons praising Piero de Medici

5. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?
(a) getting drunk and living a wild life
(b) seeing a lover
(c) running contraband goods
(d) looking for ways out of Florence

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Savonarola believe art is?

2. What is Michelangelo expected to learn about?

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

4. What is the first of Michelangelo's problems if he wants to study under Bertoldo?

5. What is Michelangelo's response when his father tells him he cannot afford to have pride?

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