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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In addition to Michelangelo's other problems, what happens to the Cardinal of San Dionigi?
(a) he dies before the pieta is finished
(b) he is sent to be the Cardinal of Germany
(c) he loses his mind and cannot remember Michelangelo
(d) he is excommunicated

3. Why does Michelangelo arrange for loans?
(a) to send for his family
(b) to pay his father's debt
(c) to buy a workshop
(d) to pay the Cardinal

4. What is Michelangelo worried about before going to the Medici school?
(a) how to tell his father
(b) where to get his supplies
(c) how to dress
(d) at what hour to arrive

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

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

7. How is Pietro Torrigiani described?
(a) a well-built, handsome young man
(b) a deformed genius
(c) a plain and untalented boy
(d) a short, fat hanger on

8. After a hard winter, where does Michelangelo's friend Granacci take him?
(a) to Venice
(b) to an art festival
(c) to a sculpture garden
(d) to a museum

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

10. How do Michelangelo and Granacci reckon Lodovico will not be harsh when he learns his son is going to de Medici?
(a) if Michelangelo promises to give him his money
(b) if he hears the name de Medici
(c) if his step mother is in the room
(d) if Granacci is present

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

12. What is Ghirlandaio reluctant to do?
(a) continue Michaelangelo's stipend
(b) release his student
(c) keep Michaelangelo as a student
(d) cater to the Medici family

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

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

15. What raw material does Michelangelo use to carve a crucifix?
(a) sandstone taken from the quarry
(b) a piece of discarded marble
(c) the hardest available Tuscan walnut
(d) a large lump of solidified plaster

Short Answer Questions

1. For his first year as an apprentice, how is Michelangelo treated?

2. What is something Michelangelo learns from members of the academy?

3. Who is the young Contessina de Medici that Michelangelo sees in the sculpture garden?

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

5. With whom does Piero de Medici refuse to work?

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