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

2. Visual perception occurs along the entire area of what part of the eye?
(a) The pupil.
(b) The iris.
(c) The vitreous humor.
(d) The retina.

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

4. What term did Leonardo eventually use to describe the object he hoped would result in human flight due to the device's flapping wings?
(a) Mosca.
(b) Anatra.
(c) Uccello.
(d) Tricheco.

5. Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yarnwinder was completed at the request of which courtier within the court of Louis XII?
(a) His treasurer.
(b) His secretary.
(c) His court jester.
(d) His scribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rather than being shown in profile, as was traditional, the subject of Lady with an Ermine is shown in what way?

2. Who used Cesare Borgia as a model of cleverness in his work The Prince?

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

4. The commission of what art piece led to Leonardo's official appointment in the court of Ludovico Sforza and its accompanying salary and accommodations?

5. The troops of which French king marched through Italy, putting a halt to Leonardo's creation of the horse monument, since his materials were needed to construct cannon?

(see the answer key)

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