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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. According to Walter Isaacson, what was the paramount theme in Leonardo's art?
(a) The spiritual connection between the earth and humans.
(b) The contrast between love and hate.
(c) Familial connections.
(d) Religious zeal.

2. 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?
(a) Natural.
(b) Rational.
(c) Transcendental.
(d) Real.

3. How old was Leonardo when Salai came to live with him?
(a) 24.
(b) 21.
(c) 38.
(d) 50.

4. In 2009, technicians were able to use infrared imaging techniques in order to expose what hidden piece of Leonardo's first version of Virgin of the Rocks?
(a) An underdrawing used to compose the painting.
(b) Three wise men who had been removed from the final piece.
(c) Three prophets who had been removed from the final piece.
(d) A second painting under the first.

5. In what year did Johannes Gutenberg begin selling Bibles created on his newly-invented printing press?
(a) 1348.
(b) 1501.
(c) 1489.
(d) 1452.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on what part of the body?

2. The center of medical research in Milan during the Renaissance was what university?

3. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?

4. Who was the subject of the portrait entitled Lady with an Ermine?

5. The profile pose was the standard for portraits of what type of people during the Renaissance?

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