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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26: Return to Milan - Chapter 33: Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Leonardo's first version of the painting Virgin of the Rocks is housed in what museum?
(a) Musée des Troupes de Montagne.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie.

3. What book written by Luca Pacioli included 60 illustrations by Leonardo, the only drawings Leonardo ever published in his lifetime?
(a) On Divine Proportion.
(b) On Architectural Design.
(c) On Geometry.
(d) On the Five Regular Solids.

4. 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.

5. Lady with an Ermine is painted on a panel made of what type of wood?
(a) Teak.
(b) Walnut.
(c) Cherry.
(d) Birch.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Francesco Melvi when he was adopted by Leonardo?

2. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?

3. When Sigmund Freud wrote a short book psychoanalyzing Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering over his crib, Freud mistakenly analyzed the symbolism of what type of bird visiting Leonardo?

4. Who retook Milan from the French after their period of occupation?

5. In 1489, the portrait subject of Lady with an Ermine was 15 years old and lived not with her family, but with whom?

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