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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Michelangelo recognize he must do to keep his father from taking him away?
(a) start working in marble
(b) bring home good reports
(c) earn some money
(d) stay out of his father's sight

3. What does Michelangelo discover that he cannot do?
(a) work in three dimensions
(b) speak French
(c) form ideas of his own
(d) replicate Bertoldo's style

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

5. Who is to go to the Medici school along with Michelangelo?
(a) Torrigiani
(b) Bertoldo
(c) Granacci
(d) Donatello

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michelangelo's brother, Lionardo, believe his brother has become?

2. What elite group is Michelangelo invited to join?

3. What does Lodovico think sculptors are?

4. What is Ghirlandaio reluctant to do?

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

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