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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is the Contessina sent as she nears marriageable age?
(a) to school in Milan
(b) to live with the Ridolfi
(c) to live in Rome
(d) to a convent

3. After one year, what is Michelangelo allowed to paint?
(a) frescoes
(b) practice canvases
(c) still lifes
(d) small portraits

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

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

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

7. Because he likes Michelangelo's cupid so well, what does Jacopo Galli commission him to sculpt?
(a) a sculpture of a Bacchus
(b) a sculpture of Adonis
(c) a sculpture of Venus
(d) a sculpture of Dyonisus

8. What does Lodovico initially refuse to give his son?
(a) new clothes fitting for the Medici palace
(b) permission to attend the de Medici school
(c) the new equipment he will need
(d) money to live on

9. For whom does Michelangelo offer to carve something?
(a) Piero de Medici
(b) his father
(c) the Contessina
(d) the church

10. What elite group is Michelangelo invited to join?
(a) The Bishop's Study Group
(b) The Plato Academy
(c) The Florence Arts Guild
(d) The Neo Lyceum

11. who brings Michelangelo to Ghirlandaio?
(a) Lorenzo de Medici
(b) Baldinelli
(c) Francesco Granacci
(d) Lodovico Buonarroti

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

13. What does Ghirlandaio want Michelangelo to do?
(a) develop his own style in his own way
(b) stop playing and go to work
(c) learn how to copy him
(d) see how little talent he has

14. Who wants to bring down the papacy and return Italy to the simple, stark, religious ways of his own beliefs?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci
(b) Lorenzo de Medici
(c) Lodovico Buonarroti
(d) Savonarola

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Just as Michelangelo starts working for Galli, what do the creditors in Florence demand?

2. Who gets Michelangelo a short interview with Cardinal Riario?

3. What is Michelangelo's conclusion about his looks after the broken nose?

4. Who helps Michelangelo find a place of his own?

5. What does Michelangelo have after his meeting with the Cardinal?

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