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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Lodovico want Michelangelo accepted?
(a) a merchant guild
(b) Ghirlandaio's school
(c) the Plato Academy
(d) the Florentine guard

2. What is Michelangelo expected to learn about?
(a) dress, manners, life, and art
(b) marble quarrying
(c) keeping a journal
(d) charging for his work

3. As Michelangelo progresses, what does he learn about life?
(a) the effects of poverty
(b) the kindness of strangers
(c) the value of personal ethics
(d) the jealousy of others

4. With whom does Piero de Medici refuse to work?
(a) Michelangelo
(b) the appointed city leaders
(c) the Pope
(d) Savonarola

5. What does Michelangelo insist painting draped figures allows the artist to do?
(a) put emphasis on color over form
(b) ignore the shape and features of the body
(c) have less trouble with textures
(d) work faster to finsh a painting

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?

3. What does Michelangelo's brother, Lionardo, believe his brother has become?

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

5. If caught in his nighttime study of anatomy, what might the Church do to him?

(see the answer key)

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