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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leonardo believed that the secret to modeling three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface was not the use of lines, but instead the use of what?
(a) Curves.
(b) Shadows.
(c) Stippling.
(d) Crosshatching.

2. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?
(a) Cesare.
(b) Francesco.
(c) Salai.
(d) Lucrezia.

3. Leonardo's packing list for his journey to enter the service of Cesare Borgia did NOT include which of the following items?
(a) A book of white paper for drawing.
(b) A sword belt.
(c) A pair of compasses.
(d) A scalpel.

4. Leonardo wrote that "Painting is based on perspective and perspective is nothing else than the thorough knowledge of the function of the" (274) what?
(a) The divine.
(b) The eye.
(c) The universe.
(d) The world.

5. Santissima Annunziata had a library with how many volumes of books?
(a) 500.
(b) 3,600.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 2,400.

6. One of Leonardo's most famous lost paintings is entitled Lena and the what?
(a) Albatross.
(b) Peacock.
(c) Dove.
(d) Swan.

7. When Leonardo went to Venice in 1500 in order to offer military advice to defend against a threatened invasion, which country was threatening to invade Venice?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Austria.
(c) France.
(d) Egypt.

8. What painting was named by the Louvre in 2012 as Leonardo's ultimate masterpiece?
(a) Vitruvian Man.
(b) Virgin of the Rocks.
(c) Virgin and Child with Saint Anne.
(d) The Mona Lisa.

9. Santissima Annunziata was located three blocks away from the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital, where Leonardo conducted what activity?
(a) Nursing the injured.
(b) Dissections.
(c) Receiving blood treatments.
(d) Conducting experiments on patients.

10. How tall was Michelangelo's statue David?
(a) 45 feet.
(b) 12 feet.
(c) 17 feet.
(d) 10 feet.

11. Leonardo wrote that what type of light is best for a portrait?
(a) Bright.
(b) Muted.
(c) Shadowed.
(d) Marbled.

12. In what year did the friar Savonarola depose the Medici family and institute a fundamentalist regime in Florence?
(a) 1494.
(b) 1503.
(c) 1452.
(d) 1463.

13. During Savonarola's rule of Florence, a militia of what was organized to police the streets and to enforce moral righteousness?
(a) Clerics.
(b) Monks.
(c) Young boys.
(d) Flagellants.

14. How did Florence save itself from plunder by Cesare Borgia and his armies?
(a) The city's army defeated the forces with cannon fire.
(b) The city's merchants promised a percentage of their sales.
(c) Officials paid an annual bribe.
(d) Officials promised loyalty in perpetuity.

15. Pope Alexander VI was the first pope to perform what action?
(a) Recognize openly his illegitimate children.
(b) Divorce his wife.
(c) Excommunicate a heretic.
(d) Get married.

Short Answer Questions

1. Visual perception occurs along the entire area of what part of the eye?

2. Lady with an Ermine is painted on a panel made of what type of wood?

3. Leonardo's Vitruvian Man was the product of his visit to the university in which Italian city?

4. The fashions worn by the subject of Lady with an Ermine became fashionable in Milan in 1489 when Gian Galeazzo Sforza was married to whom?

5. Around the time Leonardo began his most famous lost painting, he also undertook what life change?

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