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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. Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on what part of the body?
(a) The human heart.
(b) The human skull.
(c) The human vertebrae.
(d) The human femur.

2. What was different about Leonardo's drawings of machines than those of his contemporaries?
(a) Leonardo's drawings did not use color.
(b) Leonardo drew all of the different pieces of the machine separately.
(c) Leonardo's drawings were done using charcoal.
(d) Leonardo's drawings were never shown to anyone.

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

4. What was Leonardo's favorite branch of mathematics?
(a) Statistics.
(b) Algebra.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Calculus.

5. In what year did the friar Savonarola depose the Medici family and institute a fundamentalist regime in Florence?
(a) 1494.
(b) 1503.
(c) 1452.
(d) 1463.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of paint did Leonardo use to create the work entitled Lady with an Ermine?

2. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?

3. Of what material was the horse monument to be made?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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