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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What raw material does Michelangelo use to carve a crucifix?
(a) a piece of discarded marble
(b) sandstone taken from the quarry
(c) the hardest available Tuscan walnut
(d) a large lump of solidified plaster

2. What does Ghirlandaio want Michelangelo to do?
(a) learn how to copy him
(b) develop his own style in his own way
(c) see how little talent he has
(d) stop playing and go to work

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

4. Who operates the sculpture garden?
(a) Bernini
(b) da Vinci
(c) Bottecelli
(d) Bertoldo

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

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

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

8. Who does Michelangelo use for models to perfect his knowledge of anatomy?
(a) off duty guards at the Cardinal's palace
(b) his brothers who come down from Florence
(c) men in the Roman baths
(d) boys he finds playing on the streets

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

10. After a hard winter, where does Michelangelo's friend Granacci take him?
(a) to a museum
(b) to Venice
(c) to a sculpture garden
(d) to an art festival

11. What does Savonarola preach about the de Medici family?
(a) they are rich and should give to the poor
(b) they are holy and should be revered
(c) they are his strong supporters
(d) they are evil and should be destroyed

12. What do the members of the elite academy discuss and learn about?
(a) political, literary, music and philosophical ideas
(b) art, history, and geography
(c) science, exploration, and evolution
(d) history, religion, and horticulture

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michelangelo need before he can start carving the marble?

2. What is Michelangelo's response when his father tells him he cannot afford to have pride?

3. Where does Michelangelo go to study?

4. What elite group is Michelangelo invited to join?

5. What does Michelangelo refuse to do for Piero de Medici?

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