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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. The troops of which French king marched through Italy, putting a halt to Leonardo's creation of the horse monument, since his materials were needed to construct cannon?
(a) King Henry IV.
(b) King Charles VIII.
(c) King Francis I.
(d) King Henry II.

2. How did Florence save itself from plunder by Cesare Borgia and his armies?
(a) The city's army defeated the forces with cannon fire.
(b) Officials promised loyalty in perpetuity.
(c) Officials paid an annual bribe.
(d) The city's merchants promised a percentage of their sales.

3. Rather than being a surname of Leonardo's, what does the phrase "da Vinci" indicate?
(a) Leonardo's status as a polymath.
(b) Leonardo's hailing from the town of Vinci.
(c) Leonardo's illegitimate status.
(d) Leonardo's status as his father's firstborn son.

4. While the study of anatomy was pursued primarily by artists in Florence, the study of anatomy in Milan was undertaken mostly by what group of people?
(a) Medical scholars.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Clerics.
(d) Sculptors.

5. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?
(a) Aluminum.
(b) Clay.
(c) Plaster.
(d) Papier mache.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the population of Florence in 1300 before the devastation caused by the Black Death?

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

4. Much of Leonardo's thinking regarding birds was gathered into a notebook now known as the Codex on the Flight of Birds. How many folios are present within that notebook?

5. How tall was Michelangelo's statue David?

(see the answer key)

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