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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Michelangelo arrange for loans?
(a) to send for his family
(b) to buy a workshop
(c) to pay his father's debt
(d) to pay the Cardinal

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

3. What does Michelangelo refuse to do for Piero de Medici?
(a) design jewelry for his wife
(b) paint a portrait of his wife
(c) carve a bust of his wife
(d) escort his wife

4. What does Torrigiani do to Michelangelo that causes him to flee the palace?
(a) breaks Michelangelo's nose
(b) breaks Michelangelo's arm
(c) breaks Michelangelo's tools
(d) breaks Michelangelo's sculpture

5. Displeased with Piero de Medici, what are the people of Florence more inclined to listen to?
(a) Savonarola's sermons praising Piero de Medici
(b) Savonarola's sermons about the excesses of evil
(c) speakers promoting a democratic government
(d) proposals for annexing Florence to France

6. What does Ghirlandaio want Michelangelo to do?
(a) stop playing and go to work
(b) see how little talent he has
(c) develop his own style in his own way
(d) learn how to copy him

7. Who is the young Contessina de Medici that Michelangelo sees in the sculpture garden?
(a) the youngest daughter of Lorenzo
(b) the mother of Lorenzo
(c) the wife of Lorenzo
(d) the eldest daughter of Lorenzo

8. 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

9. What raw material does Michelangelo use to carve a crucifix?
(a) sandstone taken from the quarry
(b) a piece of discarded marble
(c) a large lump of solidified plaster
(d) the hardest available Tuscan walnut

10. For whom does Michelangelo offer to carve something?
(a) the church
(b) Piero de Medici
(c) the Contessina
(d) his father

11. What does Michelangelo learn the city fathers have sent behind Piero de Medici's back?
(a) a warrant for Piero's arrest
(b) a request for mercenaries from Germany
(c) letters to the Pope
(d) a delegation to Charles VIII

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

13. Who wants to bring down the papacy and return Italy to the simple, stark, religious ways of his own beliefs?
(a) Savonarola
(b) Lodovico Buonarroti
(c) Lorenzo de Medici
(d) Leonardo da Vinci

14. What are the people of Florence not happy about?
(a) the wine crop failure in Tuscany
(b) Piero de Medici's gifts to the poor
(c) the lavish wedding of the contessa
(d) Michelangelo's crucifix

15. Who operates the sculpture garden?
(a) da Vinci
(b) Bernini
(c) Bertoldo
(d) Bottecelli

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Granacci tell Michelangelo that Ghirlandaio is willing to do?

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

3. Why does Michelangelo compare his work with files borrowed from Ghirlandaio?

4. What does Michelangelo need before he can start carving the marble?

5. What elite group is Michelangelo invited to join?

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