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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To whom does the sculpture garden belong?
(a) Lodovico Buonarroti
(b) Lorenzo de Medici
(c) Baldinelli
(d) the Tropolinos
2. For his first year as an apprentice, how is Michelangelo treated?
(a) as a messenger boy
(b) as if he knows nothing about art
(c) as though he were not there
(d) as a boy to make the daily coffee
3. What does Torrigiani do to Michelangelo that causes him to flee the palace?
(a) breaks Michelangelo's arm
(b) breaks Michelangelo's nose
(c) breaks Michelangelo's tools
(d) breaks Michelangelo's sculpture
4. What does Michelangelo recognize he must do to keep his father from taking him away?
(a) start working in marble
(b) earn some money
(c) bring home good reports
(d) stay out of his father's sight
5. 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 mother of Lorenzo
(d) the eldest daughter of Lorenzo
6. What is the important commission from the Cardinal of San Dionigi that Michelangelo wants to bid on?
(a) a crucifixion
(b) a pieta
(c) a statue of David
(d) the last supper
7. At the palace de Medici, with whom does Michelangelo share quarters?
(a) Bertoldo, the sculpture master
(b) Donato Donatello
(c) Pietro Torrigiani
(d) Francesco Granacci
8. Where does Lodovico want Michelangelo accepted?
(a) the Florentine guard
(b) Ghirlandaio's school
(c) the Plato Academy
(d) a merchant guild
9. After the festival for his son, where does Piero de Medici invite Michelangelo?
(a) on a trip to Bologna
(b) back to restore the Sculpture Garden
(c) on a trip to visit King Charles VIII of France
(d) back into the de Medici home
10. Who comes and sees the sculpture Michelangelo did?
(a) Lorenzo
(b) Contessina de Medici
(c) Bertoldo
(d) Lodovico
11. What is Michelangelo's position in the home of Cardinal Riario?
(a) the Cardinals confidant
(b) the apprentice architect
(c) the philosophy instructor
(d) one of the Cardinal's skilled workmen
12. Who is Cardinal Riario di San Giorgio looking for?
(a) the man who had sculpted a cupid he owns
(b) Signor Aldovrandi
(c) the sculptor Dell'Arca
(d) Charles VIII of France
13. What does Michelangelo discover that he cannot do?
(a) work in three dimensions
(b) form ideas of his own
(c) speak French
(d) replicate Bertoldo's style
14. What is the first of Michelangelo's problems if he wants to study under Bertoldo?
(a) the attitude of his father
(b) money to buy sculpting tools
(c) Ghirlandaio's attitude toward sculpture
(d) two years left as an apprentice for Ghirlandaio
15. As a second problem, what must Michelangelo have if he wants to study under Bertoldo?
(a) ten thousand florins
(b) an invitation from Bertoldo or one of the de Medicis
(c) previous art recognition
(d) knowledge of the basics of sculpture
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Michelangelo learn the city fathers have sent behind Piero de Medici's back?
2. What does Michelangelo insist painting draped figures allows the artist to do?
3. What does Michelangelo tell his brother about his art?
4. Who operates the sculpture garden?
5. What causes Savonarola to agree that he is a heretic and then recant?
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