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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26: Return to Milan - Chapter 33: Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Leonardo's Madonna of the Yardwinder to become one of his most influential paintings?
(a) It was delivered to the Viennese court and widely copied.
(b) It was delivered to the Portuguese court and widely copied.
(c) It was delivered to the Austrian court and widely copied.
(d) It was delivered to the French court and widely copied.

2. How soon after Leonardo's birth did his father Piero marry Albiera, Leonardo's stepmother?
(a) Two years after.
(b) Eight months after.
(c) One week after.
(d) Eight years after.

3. In what year did Leonardo leave Florence to return to Milan to live for the second time in his life?
(a) 1476.
(b) 1516.
(c) 1498.
(d) 1506.

4. In the early 1490s, Leonardo undertook the task of learning what language?
(a) Spanish.
(b) French.
(c) Greek.
(d) Latin.

5. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?
(a) A court physician.
(b) An engineer.
(c) A producer of theater productions.
(d) A portraitist.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Leonardo brought to Florence to live with his father?

2. When Leonardo came upon a cave while hiking near Florence, what type of fossilized animal did he discover within the confines of the cave?

3. While the process of human dissection was common and accepted in both Florence and Milan during Leonardo's lifetime, it was neither common nor accepted in which city?

4. Leonardo believed that deep observation must be done in what manner?

5. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?

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