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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 he hears the name de Medici
(c) if his step mother is in the room
(d) if Michelangelo promises to give him his money

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

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

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

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

6. What are the people of Florence not happy about?
(a) the lavish wedding of the contessa
(b) Piero de Medici's gifts to the poor
(c) the wine crop failure in Tuscany
(d) Michelangelo's crucifix

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

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

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

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

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

12. What does Michelangelo carve surreptitiously?
(a) a lion
(b) a cat
(c) a faun
(d) a face

13. What is the important commission from the Cardinal of San Dionigi that Michelangelo wants to bid on?
(a) a pieta
(b) a crucifixion
(c) a statue of David
(d) the last supper

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Displeased with Piero de Medici, what are the people of Florence more inclined to listen to?

2. After a hard winter, where does Michelangelo's friend Granacci take him?

3. How does Michelangelo set himself apart at the Guild Hall of Signor Ghirlandaio?

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

5. What is Michelangelo's position in the home of Cardinal Riario?

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