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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. In 1489, the portrait subject of Lady with an Ermine was 15 years old and lived not with her family, but with whom?
(a) Ludovico Sforza.
(b) Pope Alexander II.
(c) Cesare Borgia.
(d) Giovanni Sforza.

2. The commission of what art piece led to Leonardo's official appointment in the court of Ludovico Sforza and its accompanying salary and accommodations?
(a) Lady with an Ermine.
(b) The Last Supper.
(c) A massive horse monument.
(d) The spire of the Milan Cathedral.

3. 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.

4. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?
(a) Florencier.
(b) Flor.
(c) Florette.
(d) Florenzer.

5. One reason Leonardo could not devise how to square a circle is that a mathematical process for squaring a circle cannot be done with just a compass and a ruler. Instead, it requires what type of number?
(a) Transcendental.
(b) Natural.
(c) Rational.
(d) Real.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term that describes how a body set in motion tends to keep moving in the same direction?

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

3. In what year did Johannes Gutenberg begin selling Bibles created on his newly-invented printing press?

4. How many tons did Leonardo plan his horse monument to weigh upon its completion?

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

(see the answer key)

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