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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is to go to the Medici school along with Michelangelo?
(a) Bertoldo
(b) Donatello
(c) Torrigiani
(d) Granacci

2. 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

3. What is Michelangelo's response when his father tells him he cannot afford to have pride?
(a) I have my name
(b) pride is all I have left
(c) I'm not proud, I'm hungry
(d) I still have some money in my pruse

4. What is one thing Michelangelo is thrilled that he can do?
(a) travel in the de Medici coach
(b) see and talk to Contessina
(c) sleep until noon
(d) eat in the dinning room

5. For his first year as an apprentice, how is Michelangelo treated?
(a) as a boy to make the daily coffee
(b) as a messenger boy
(c) as if he knows nothing about art
(d) as though he were not there

6. What is Lodovico unable to do when Michelangelo is given the privilege of living in the de Medici household?
(a) refuse Lorenzo de Medici
(b) stand up
(c) believe his ears
(d) utter a word

7. Who is the young Contessina de Medici that Michelangelo sees in the sculpture garden?
(a) the eldest daughter of Lorenzo
(b) the mother of Lorenzo
(c) the wife of Lorenzo
(d) the youngest daughter of Lorenzo

8. Where does Michelangelo go to study?
(a) the Plato Academy
(b) the library of the Order of Hermits of Santo Spiritu
(c) the art school of Milan
(d) the Vatican archives

9. What does Savonarola preach about the de Medici family?
(a) they are rich and should give to the poor
(b) they are his strong supporters
(c) they are evil and should be destroyed
(d) they are holy and should be revered

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

11. While working on the panels, what is Michelangelo dreaming about?
(a) making his name in the art world
(b) opening his own studio
(c) the sculpture garden
(d) finding models

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

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

14. How does Michelangelo set himself apart at the Guild Hall of Signor Ghirlandaio?
(a) with his talents and beliefs
(b) with his anti-social behavior
(c) with the poorness of his clothes
(d) with his long hours of study

15. 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 warrant for Piero's arrest
(d) a delegation to Charles VIII

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the important commission from the Cardinal of San Dionigi that Michelangelo wants to bid on?

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

4. Who is Cardinal Riario di San Giorgio looking for?

5. After one year, what is Michelangelo allowed to paint?

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