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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Michelangelo's conclusion about his looks after the broken nose?
(a) it is something he cannot change
(b) his work must conceal his looks
(c) now he is handsome
(d) it makes him look eccentric

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

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

6. What does Michelangelo recognize he must do to keep his father from taking him away?
(a) stay out of his father's sight
(b) start working in marble
(c) bring home good reports
(d) earn some money

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

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

9. With whom does Piero de Medici refuse to work?
(a) the appointed city leaders
(b) Michelangelo
(c) Savonarola
(d) the Pope

10. What does Michelangelo tell his brother about his art?
(a) that it is all he knows
(b) that it is his life
(c) that it is progressing
(d) that it is holy

11. What is something Michelangelo learns from members of the academy?
(a) elocution and ethics
(b) literature and the value of writing poetry
(c) accounting and the importance of politics
(d) music and dancing

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In addition to Michelangelo's other problems, what happens to the Cardinal of San Dionigi?

3. What does Lodovico initially refuse to give his son?

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

5. Who comes and sees the sculpture Michelangelo did?

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