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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) getting drunk and living a wild life
(b) seeing a lover
(c) looking for ways out of Florence
(d) running contraband goods

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

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

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

5. What does Michelangelo need before he can start carving the marble?
(a) getting the marble moved to Rome
(b) specific permission from the Cardinal
(c) an assistant to help him work
(d) a new set of carving tools

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to Michelangelo's other problems, what happens to the Cardinal of San Dionigi?

2. How is Pietro Torrigiani described?

3. What does Michelangelo tell his brother about his art?

4. Because he likes Michelangelo's cupid so well, what does Jacopo Galli commission him to sculpt?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Explain how the antagonism of Bramante developed against Michelangelo.

6. What does Lorenzo de Medici reveal to Michelangelo about his training?

7. Describe the conditions Michelangelo finds when he moves into Lorenzo's palazzo.

8. How does Michelangelo's first year of training go?

9. How does Torrigiani expose his envy of Michelangelo?

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

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