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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. 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 universe.
(b) The divine.
(c) The eye.
(d) The world.

2. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?
(a) 1477.
(b) 1490.
(c) 1498.
(d) 1462.

3. Authenticity of Renaissance paintings can be difficult to prove due to what habit of the era's painters?
(a) They never worked alone.
(b) They did not believe in auteurism.
(c) They did not sign their work.
(d) They all painted using similar styles.

4. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?
(a) Leonardo's half-brother's.
(b) Leonardo's stepmother's.
(c) Leonardo's maternal grandmother's.
(d) Leonardo's cousin's.

5. How did the friar Savonarola die?
(a) He drowned.
(b) He was drawn and quartered.
(c) He committed suicide.
(d) He was burned and hanged.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo's most intense technological interest during his time in Rome involved what objects?

2. How old was Salai when he came to live with Leonardo?

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

4. Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering above his crib when he was an infant involved what type of bird?

5. Which friend of Leonardo's developed the first widely-published system for double-entry bookkeeping?

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