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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

3. What does Michelangelo have after his meeting with the Cardinal?
(a) a new workshop to work in
(b) a seven-foot block of marble and no money
(c) a commission to carvea pieta
(d) a letter of introduction to the Pope

4. Where does Lodovico want Michelangelo accepted?
(a) Ghirlandaio's school
(b) a merchant guild
(c) the Florentine guard
(d) the Plato Academy

5. What does Michelangelo discover that he cannot do?
(a) speak French
(b) form ideas of his own
(c) work in three dimensions
(d) replicate Bertoldo's style

6. What is Michelangelo expected to learn about?
(a) dress, manners, life, and art
(b) charging for his work
(c) keeping a journal
(d) marble quarrying

7. Who comes to Rome and is able to help clean out Michelangelo's new quarters?
(a) his brother Lionardo
(b) his father Lodovico
(c) his friend Granacci
(d) his brother Buonarroto

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

9. What does Piero de Medici want Michelangelo to carve for the birthday of his son, Giuliano?
(a) a snowman
(b) a set of small soldiers
(c) a bed
(d) a cupid

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

11. 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 sharing a bed with his brother
(d) back at the Tropolino house

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

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

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

15. 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) utter a word
(d) believe his ears

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What causes Savonarola to agree that he is a heretic and then recant?

3. What does Giuliano da Sangallo do for Michelangelo?

4. Who is Il Magnifico?

5. Who operates the sculpture garden?

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