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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who comes and sees the sculpture Michelangelo did?
(a) Lorenzo
(b) Bertoldo
(c) Lodovico
(d) Contessina de Medici

3. Who gets Michelangelo a short interview with Cardinal Riario?
(a) Andrea Bregno
(b) Giuliano da Sangallo
(c) Jacopo Galli
(d) Leo Baglioni

4. How does Charles VIII of France want to claim the Kingdom of Naples?
(a) through inheritance
(b) through eminent domaine
(c) through treaty
(d) through warfare

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) a new set of carving tools
(d) an assistant to help him work

6. Who comes to Rome and is able to help clean out Michelangelo's new quarters?
(a) his father Lodovico
(b) his brother Lionardo
(c) his brother Buonarroto
(d) his friend Granacci

7. What is Michelangelo's conclusion about his looks after the broken nose?
(a) it is something he cannot change
(b) now he is handsome
(c) his work must conceal his looks
(d) it makes him look eccentric

8. How does Michelangelo feel about painting frescoes?
(a) he is thrilled to be doing them
(b) he does not like doing them
(c) he thinks they are difficult to do
(d) he feels he is learning a lot

9. What does Michelangelo learn his old nemesis, Torrigiani, is doing in Rome?
(a) befriending the Borgias
(b) selling miniature sculptures
(c) working for the Pope
(d) looking for him

10. What does Savonarola believe art is?
(a) a gift from God
(b) godly and uplifting
(c) neither good nor bad
(d) blasphemous and ungodly

11. What is Michelangelo expected to learn about?
(a) dress, manners, life, and art
(b) marble quarrying
(c) keeping a journal
(d) charging for his work

12. What elite group is Michelangelo invited to join?
(a) The Bishop's Study Group
(b) The Plato Academy
(c) The Neo Lyceum
(d) The Florence Arts Guild

13. What is the first of Michelangelo's problems if he wants to study under Bertoldo?
(a) money to buy sculpting tools
(b) Ghirlandaio's attitude toward sculpture
(c) the attitude of his father
(d) two years left as an apprentice for Ghirlandaio

14. Instead of a commission, what does Cardinal Riario give Michelangelo?
(a) expenses back to florence
(b) the marble
(c) a scholarship
(d) a little money

15. What does Lodovico think sculptors are?
(a) contributors to society
(b) grand artists
(c) little more than being stonecutters
(d) potentially wealthy men

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is perfectly content to keep house and cook for Michelangelo?

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

3. Why does Michelangelo arrange for loans?

4. What is one thing Michelangelo is thrilled that he can do?

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

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