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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the thirteen-year-old Michelangelo taken in March of 1488?
(a) the Guild Hall of Signor Ghirlandaio
(b) to the home of the Tropolinos
(c) the Medici Palace
(d) to see the Pope in Rome

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

3. What does Michelangelo get Ghirlandaio to do for him?
(a) allow him to paint his own designs
(b) buy all of his art supplies
(c) pay him a stipend to study there
(d) give him a good recommendation

4. How does Michelangelo learn anatomy at the charity hospital of Santo Spirito?
(a) by auditing classes
(b) by bathing patients
(c) by watching surgeries
(d) by dissecting dead bodies

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

Short Answer Questions

1. who brings Michelangelo to Ghirlandaio?

2. What does Savonarola believe art is?

3. As a second problem, what must Michelangelo have if he wants to study under Bertoldo?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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