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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who can Michelangelo not rely on to pay his apprentice fees?
(a) his friend, Francesco
(b) his patron, Lorenzo
(c) his father, Lodovico
(d) his friends, the Tropolinos

3. 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

4. How does Michelangelo spend a lot of his free time near the sculpture garden?
(a) sitting in a tree, looking over the wall
(b) putting out his paintings for sale
(c) standing outside the school's gates, watching
(d) waiting to see a de Medici coming

5. What does Savonarola believe art is?
(a) godly and uplifting
(b) a gift from God
(c) blasphemous and ungodly
(d) neither good nor bad

6. At the palace de Medici, with whom does Michelangelo share quarters?
(a) Bertoldo, the sculpture master
(b) Donato Donatello
(c) Francesco Granacci
(d) Pietro Torrigiani

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

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

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

10. Who is perfectly content to keep house and cook for Michelangelo?
(a) Granacci
(b) Lionardo
(c) Buonarroto
(d) Argiento

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

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

13. What does Lodovico think sculptors are?
(a) potentially wealthy men
(b) contributors to society
(c) little more than being stonecutters
(d) grand artists

14. What do the members of the elite academy discuss and learn about?
(a) history, religion, and horticulture
(b) art, history, and geography
(c) political, literary, music and philosophical ideas
(d) science, exploration, and evolution

15. What does Torrigiani do to Michelangelo that causes him to flee the palace?
(a) breaks Michelangelo's nose
(b) breaks Michelangelo's arm
(c) breaks Michelangelo's sculpture
(d) breaks Michelangelo's tools

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ghirlandaio want Michelangelo to do?

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

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

4. Why does Michelangelo arrange for loans?

5. How does Charles VIII of France want to claim the Kingdom of Naples?

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