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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 1489, the portrait subject of Lady with an Ermine was 15 years old and lived not with her family, but with whom?
(a) Ludovico Sforza.
(b) Cesare Borgia.
(c) Pope Alexander II.
(d) Giovanni Sforza.

2. In the mid-1490s, Leonardo halted his study of anatomy, and would not return to the subject for how many years?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 30.

3. In the late years of what decade did Leonardo begin to devise contraptions that would enable human flight?
(a) 1460s.
(b) 1490s.
(c) 1500s.
(d) 1480s.

4. 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 scribe.
(c) His court jester.
(d) His secretary.

5. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?
(a) An engineer.
(b) A producer of theater productions.
(c) A court physician.
(d) A portraitist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Leonardo's Vitruvian Man was the product of his visit to the university in which Italian city?

3. During Savonarola's rule of Florence, a militia of what was organized to police the streets and to enforce moral righteousness?

4. When Leonardo moved back to Florence in 1500, in what type of location did he take up residence?

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

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