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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michelangelo learn the city fathers have sent behind Piero de Medici's back?
(a) a request for mercenaries from Germany
(b) letters to the Pope
(c) a delegation to Charles VIII
(d) a warrant for Piero's arrest

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

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

4. What does Michelangelo's brother, Lionardo, believe his brother has become?
(a) overly educated in the arts
(b) subservient and docile
(c) corrupted by power and money
(d) absent minded and useless

5. Who is Cardinal Riario di San Giorgio looking for?
(a) Signor Aldovrandi
(b) the sculptor Dell'Arca
(c) Charles VIII of France
(d) the man who had sculpted a cupid he owns

6. What does Michelangelo discover his father believes about Lorenzo de Medici?
(a) he is a saint
(b) he is a fool
(c) he is a tyrant
(d) he is bankrupt

7. What does Michelangelo need before he can start carving the marble?
(a) a new set of carving tools
(b) specific permission from the Cardinal
(c) getting the marble moved to Rome
(d) an assistant to help him work

8. After the death of Lorenzo de Medici, where does Michelangelo find himself?
(a) working in the marble quarry
(b) back at the Tropolino house
(c) on the way to Portugal
(d) back sharing a bed with his brother

9. What does Michelangelo refuse to do for Piero de Medici?
(a) paint a portrait of his wife
(b) design jewelry for his wife
(c) carve a bust of his wife
(d) escort his wife

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

11. What is Michelangelo allowed to do for his painting of a neophyte for the Baptism of John panel?
(a) paint with close supervision
(b) bring in a nude model
(c) work with two other apprentices
(d) redesign the panel

12. What are the people of Florence not happy about?
(a) the lavish wedding of the contessa
(b) the wine crop failure in Tuscany
(c) Michelangelo's crucifix
(d) Piero de Medici's gifts to the poor

13. What is Michelangelo's position in the home of Cardinal Riario?
(a) the philosophy instructor
(b) one of the Cardinal's skilled workmen
(c) the Cardinals confidant
(d) the apprentice architect

14. After the festival for his son, where does Piero de Medici invite Michelangelo?
(a) back to restore the Sculpture Garden
(b) on a trip to Bologna
(c) on a trip to visit King Charles VIII of France
(d) back into the de Medici home

15. How does Charles VIII of France want to claim the Kingdom of Naples?
(a) through inheritance
(b) through treaty
(c) through warfare
(d) through eminent domaine

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Michelangelo worried about before going to the Medici school?

4. Where does Michelangelo go to study?

5. Who operates the sculpture garden?

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