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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Michelangelo spend a lot of his free time near the sculpture garden?
(a) sitting in a tree, looking over the wall
(b) putting out his paintings for sale
(c) standing outside the school's gates, watching
(d) waiting to see a de Medici coming

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

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

4. Instead of a commission, what does Cardinal Riario give Michelangelo?
(a) expenses back to florence
(b) a scholarship
(c) the marble
(d) a little money

5. What does Giuliano da Sangallo do for Michelangelo?
(a) shows him where to buy marble
(b) teaches him more about architecture
(c) helps him when his stepmother dies
(d) introduces him to a diplomat

6. Who is the young Contessina de Medici that Michelangelo sees in the sculpture garden?
(a) the eldest daughter of Lorenzo
(b) the youngest daughter of Lorenzo
(c) the mother of Lorenzo
(d) the wife of Lorenzo

7. With whom does Piero de Medici refuse to work?
(a) Michelangelo
(b) the appointed city leaders
(c) Savonarola
(d) the Pope

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

9. In addition to Michelangelo's other problems, what happens to the Cardinal of San Dionigi?
(a) he dies before the pieta is finished
(b) he is sent to be the Cardinal of Germany
(c) he is excommunicated
(d) he loses his mind and cannot remember Michelangelo

10. After one year, what is Michelangelo allowed to paint?
(a) still lifes
(b) small portraits
(c) frescoes
(d) practice canvases

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

12. Who comes and sees the sculpture Michelangelo did?
(a) Bertoldo
(b) Lorenzo
(c) Lodovico
(d) Contessina de Medici

13. Displeased with Piero de Medici, what are the people of Florence more inclined to listen to?
(a) Savonarola's sermons about the excesses of evil
(b) Savonarola's sermons praising Piero de Medici
(c) proposals for annexing Florence to France
(d) speakers promoting a democratic government

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

15. What is the first of Michelangelo's problems if he wants to study under Bertoldo?
(a) money to buy sculpting tools
(b) the attitude of his father
(c) Ghirlandaio's attitude toward sculpture
(d) two years left as an apprentice for Ghirlandaio

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Michelangelo discover his father believes about Lorenzo de Medici?

4. What does Michelangelo believe that Ghirlandaio disagrees with?

5. What do the members of the elite academy discuss and learn about?

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