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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. Rather than being shown in profile, as was traditional, the subject of Lady with an Ermine is shown in what way?
(a) From the neck up.
(b) In full frontal view.
(c) From the knees up.
(d) In three-quarters view.

2. Whose work on shadows did Leonardo study?
(a) Sisyphus.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

3. During his prolonged study of optics, Leonardo dissected the eyes of humans and what other animal?
(a) Pigs.
(b) Horses.
(c) Cats.
(d) Cows.

4. Leonardo wrote that "Painting is based on perspective and perspective is nothing else than the thorough knowledge of the function of the" (274) what?
(a) The eye.
(b) The universe.
(c) The divine.
(d) The world.

5. Around the time Leonardo was working on his work entitled Salvator Mundi, he was doing optic studies that investigated how the eyes perform what action?
(a) Focus.
(b) Blink.
(c) Remain moist.
(d) Produce tears.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?

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

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

4. Cesare Borgia became the first man in history to perform what action?

5. The fashions worn by the subject of Lady with an Ermine became fashionable in Milan in 1489 when Gian Galeazzo Sforza was married to whom?

(see the answer key)

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