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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 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.

2. Pope Alexander VI was the first pope to perform what action?
(a) Excommunicate a heretic.
(b) Divorce his wife.
(c) Recognize openly his illegitimate children.
(d) Get married.

3. The parts of a scene that get the most direct light have the greatest saturation of what?
(a) Shadow.
(b) Paint.
(c) Texture.
(d) Color.

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

5. Leonardo's Vitruvian Man was the product of his visit to the university in which Italian city?
(a) Milan.
(b) Rome.
(c) Padua.
(d) Pavia.

Short Answer Questions

1. The drawing entitled Head of a Young Woman is an "exquisite example of Leonardo's use of" what "to create shadows and texture"? (234)

2. What is the primary characteristic of Leonardo's angel in the painting Virgin of the Rocks that causes it to be much discussed by scholars?

3. When Donato Bramante was hired by Ludovico Sforza to remodel the dining hall of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, what painting was Leonardo hired to create on the dining hall's wall?

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

5. The first version of Leonardo's painting Virgin of the Rocks was completed in what year?

(see the answer key)

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