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

2. What was the man's name who became Pope Alexander VI?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Rodrigo Borgia.
(c) Ludovico Sforza.
(d) Cesare Borgia.

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

4. Leonardo insisted that all boundaries within both art and nature were what?
(a) Impossible.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Distinct.
(d) Blurred.

5. Around the time Leonardo began his most famous lost painting, he also undertook what life change?
(a) Adoption.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Relocation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The most basic anatomical knowledge for a painter is the study of what?

2. What term did Leonardo eventually use to describe the object he hoped would result in human flight due to the device's flapping wings?

3. Leonardo's packing list for his journey to enter the service of Cesare Borgia did NOT include which of the following items?

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

5. How did the friar Savonarola die?

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