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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Eventually, what does Lodovico hope for that will help his family?
(a) his son's becoming famous
(b) connections to de Medici
(c) a new position in Milan
(d) Michelangelo will change his mind

3. If caught in his nighttime study of anatomy, what might the Church do to him?
(a) put him in prison
(b) put him in a monastery
(c) put him to death
(d) dismiss him from school

4. What is Michelangelo worried about before going to the Medici school?
(a) how to dress
(b) at what hour to arrive
(c) where to get his supplies
(d) how to tell his father

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

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

7. What is Ghirlandaio reluctant to do?
(a) continue Michaelangelo's stipend
(b) keep Michaelangelo as a student
(c) cater to the Medici family
(d) release his student

8. Just as Michelangelo starts working for Galli, what do the creditors in Florence demand?
(a) letters of credit from Jacopo Galli
(b) all the money within one month
(c) part of the money within the week
(d) Michelangelo return to Florence and work there

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

10. What does Michelangelo insist painting draped figures allows the artist to do?
(a) work faster to finsh a painting
(b) have less trouble with textures
(c) put emphasis on color over form
(d) ignore the shape and features of the body

11. Besides working on his commission, what does Michelangelo enjoy in Galli's home?
(a) conversations with a learned man
(b) the finest food in Rome
(c) freedom to find other commissions
(d) a good bed to sleep in

12. How is Pietro Torrigiani described?
(a) a short, fat hanger on
(b) a well-built, handsome young man
(c) a deformed genius
(d) a plain and untalented boy

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

14. Working all day and studying all night, what do people think Michelangelo is doing?
(a) seeing a lover
(b) looking for ways out of Florence
(c) getting drunk and living a wild life
(d) running contraband goods

15. Why does Michelangelo compare his work with files borrowed from Ghirlandaio?
(a) to find a patron
(b) to learn from his own mistakes
(c) to learn how to keep files
(d) to see how much better he is

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lodovico initially refuse to give his son?

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

3. What is Michelangelo's conclusion about his looks after the broken nose?

4. What does Michelangelo get Ghirlandaio to do for him?

5. Where is the Contessina sent as she nears marriageable age?

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