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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) waiting to see a de Medici coming
(d) standing outside the school's gates, watching

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

4. What is Michelangelo's response when his father tells him he cannot afford to have pride?
(a) pride is all I have left
(b) I still have some money in my pruse
(c) I have my name
(d) I'm not proud, I'm hungry

5. Who can Michelangelo not rely on to pay his apprentice fees?
(a) his friends, the Tropolinos
(b) his friend, Francesco
(c) his patron, Lorenzo
(d) his father, Lodovico

Short Answer Questions

1. Who operates the sculpture garden?

2. How does Charles VIII of France want to claim the Kingdom of Naples?

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

4. Where does Michelangelo go to study?

5. Who is the young Contessina de Medici that Michelangelo sees in the sculpture garden?

(see the answer key)

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