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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 apprentice architect
(d) the Cardinals confidant

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

5. How does Michelangelo learn anatomy at the charity hospital of Santo Spirito?
(a) by watching surgeries
(b) by auditing classes
(c) by bathing patients
(d) by dissecting dead bodies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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 excommunicated
(c) he loses his mind and cannot remember Michelangelo
(d) he is sent to be the Cardinal of Germany

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

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Michelangelo worried about before going to the Medici school?

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

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

4. What is Michelangelo allowed to do for his painting of a neophyte for the Baptism of John panel?

5. What elite group is Michelangelo invited to join?

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