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

2. In 2009, technicians were able to use infrared imaging techniques in order to expose what hidden piece of Leonardo's first version of Virgin of the Rocks?
(a) A second painting under the first.
(b) Three prophets who had been removed from the final piece.
(c) Three wise men who had been removed from the final piece.
(d) An underdrawing used to compose the painting.

3. During Leonardo's time in Rome with Pope Leo, he was much more interested in what two subjects than he was in painting?
(a) Phrenology and meteorology.
(b) Pageantry and psychology.
(c) Science and engineering.
(d) Anatomy and weather.

4. In May of 1504, Isabella gave up on her quest to get Leonardo to paint her portrait, telling him that instead he could paint a portrait for her of what person?
(a) Lucrezia Borgia.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Mary Magdalene.
(d) Jesus.

5. While Leonardo often drew and painted full-body male nudes, by contrast, almost all of the women he painted were what?
(a) Clothed and shown from the waist up.
(b) Hiding their nakedness with their hair.
(c) Turned away from the viewer.
(d) Clothed and shown from the waist down.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Leonardo's father Piero leave to Leonardo in his will?

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. By age five, Leonardo lived primarily with whom?

5. In what year was Leonardo brought to Florence to live with his father?

(see the answer key)

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