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

2. Leonardo first tackled the complexities of depicting shadows when drawing what kinds of objects during his training in Verrocchio's art studio?
(a) Draperies.
(b) Columns.
(c) Pieces of fruit.
(d) Hands.

3. Isaacson writes that "No scientist before Leonardo had methodically shown how birds" (183) perform what action?
(a) Land.
(b) Take off.
(c) Stay aloft.
(d) Dive.

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

5. 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) Crosshatching.
(b) Shadows.
(c) Curves.
(d) Stippling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Walter Isaacson states that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man perfectly symbolizes the ideal of what?

2. The parts of a scene that get the most direct light have the greatest saturation of what?

3. Pope Alexander VI was the first pope to perform what action?

4. One reason Leonardo could not devise how to square a circle is that a mathematical process for squaring a circle cannot be done with just a compass and a ruler. Instead, it requires what type of number?

5. According to Walter Isaacson, what was the paramount theme in Leonardo's art?

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