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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Pietro Torrigiani described?
(a) a well-built, handsome young man
(b) a short, fat hanger on
(c) a plain and untalented boy
(d) a deformed genius

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

3. What does Michelangelo learn the city fathers have sent behind Piero de Medici's back?
(a) letters to the Pope
(b) a warrant for Piero's arrest
(c) a delegation to Charles VIII
(d) a request for mercenaries from Germany

4. To whom does the sculpture garden belong?
(a) Lorenzo de Medici
(b) Baldinelli
(c) Lodovico Buonarroti
(d) the Tropolinos

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

6. What does Michelangelo learn his old nemesis, Torrigiani, is doing in Rome?
(a) looking for him
(b) working for the Pope
(c) befriending the Borgias
(d) selling miniature sculptures

7. Who asks for two of Ghirlandaio's students to study at his new Medici school?
(a) Il Magnifico
(b) Bottecelli
(c) Baldinelli
(d) Bertoldo

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

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

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

11. Why does Michelangelo compare his work with files borrowed from Ghirlandaio?
(a) to learn from his own mistakes
(b) to see how much better he is
(c) to learn how to keep files
(d) to find a patron

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

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

14. What does Lodovico initially refuse to give his son?
(a) money to live on
(b) permission to attend the de Medici school
(c) the new equipment he will need
(d) new clothes fitting for the Medici palace

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is something Michelangelo learns from members of the academy?

2. What does Savonarola believe art is?

3. What is Ghirlandaio reluctant to do?

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

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

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