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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is perfectly content to keep house and cook for Michelangelo?
(a) Buonarroto
(b) Granacci
(c) Argiento
(d) Lionardo

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As Michelangelo progresses, what does he learn about life?

3. How does Michelangelo learn anatomy at the charity hospital of Santo Spirito?

4. For his first year as an apprentice, how is Michelangelo treated?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Michelangelo finally gets to speak with Cardinal Riario about starting on the large block of marble?

2. When the Contessina sees Michelangelo after he leaves her house, what transpires?

3. Tell something about Michelangelo's reception when he returns home.

4. Describe Michelangelo's living conditions when he first comes to Rome.

5. Explain the effect of Michelangelo's broken nose at the hand of Torrigiani.

6. How does Torrigiani expose his envy of Michelangelo?

7. Describe how Michelangelo gets his start in art education.

8. Explain how Michelangelo finds the place where he really wants to be.

9. What, beside the Bacchus commission, does Michelangelo get from Jacopo Galli?

10. Describe briefly the way friendship develops between Michelangelo and the contessina.

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