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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Michelangelo arrange for loans?
(a) to buy a workshop
(b) to pay his father's debt
(c) to send for his family
(d) to pay the Cardinal

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

3. What does Michelangelo refuse to do for Piero de Medici?
(a) paint a portrait of his wife
(b) carve a bust of his wife
(c) design jewelry for his wife
(d) escort his wife

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

5. What causes Savonarola to agree that he is a heretic and then recant?
(a) several days of torture
(b) a debate in Florence
(c) instructions form the Pope
(d) the de Medici family

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

7. How does Charles VIII of France want to claim the Kingdom of Naples?
(a) through inheritance
(b) through treaty
(c) through warfare
(d) through eminent domaine

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

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

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

11. Who is Cardinal Riario di San Giorgio looking for?
(a) the sculptor Dell'Arca
(b) Signor Aldovrandi
(c) Charles VIII of France
(d) the man who had sculpted a cupid he owns

12. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?
(a) seeing a lover
(b) running contraband goods
(c) getting drunk and living a wild life
(d) looking for ways out of Florence

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What elite group is Michelangelo invited to join?

2. What is the first of Michelangelo's problems if he wants to study under Bertoldo?

3. Instead of a commission, what does Cardinal Riario give Michelangelo?

4. While working on the panels, what is Michelangelo dreaming about?

5. How does Michelangelo feel about painting frescoes?

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