This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20: Florence Again - Chapter 25: Michelangelo and the Lost Battles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In whose honor was the horse monument intended to be created, with a sculpture of his likeness to be placed upon the back of the horse?
(a) Pope Alexander VI.
(b) Duke Francesco.
(c) Ludovico Sforza.
(d) Cesare Borgia.

2. How did the friar Savonarola die?
(a) He committed suicide.
(b) He was drawn and quartered.
(c) He drowned.
(d) He was burned and hanged.

3. The most basic anatomical knowledge for a painter is the study of what?
(a) Tendons.
(b) Bones.
(c) Ligaments.
(d) Muscles.

4. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?
(a) Breed them.
(b) Set them free.
(c) Use them in experiments.
(d) Give them as gifts.

5. When he returned to Florence once again in 1500, Leonardo set up what type of workshop?
(a) Religious.
(b) Secret.
(c) Collaborative.
(d) Medical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo wrote that, "Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without" (175) what two items?

2. Who wrote the book On Painting, which became a Bible for Leonardo?

3. Authenticity of Renaissance paintings can be difficult to prove due to what habit of the era's painters?

4. When Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia at the age of 50, how old was Cesare Borgia?

5. Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yarnwinder was completed at the request of which courtier within the court of Louis XII?

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