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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: The Nature of Man - Chapter 19: Personal Turmoil.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Three prophets who had been removed from the final piece.
(b) An underdrawing used to compose the painting.
(c) A second painting under the first.
(d) Three wise men who had been removed from the final piece.

2. How was the model of Leonardo's horse monument destroyed in 1499?
(a) Heavy rains degraded its foundation.
(b) It burnt to the ground.
(c) Vandals smashed it under cover of night.
(d) French archers used it for target practice.

3. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?
(a) 39.
(b) 212.
(c) 169.
(d) 64.

4. What role did Leonardo inhabit upon his arrival to the court of Ludovico Sforza?
(a) A portraitist.
(b) A fashion designer.
(c) An engineer.
(d) A producer of pageants.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo insisted that all boundaries within both art and nature were what?

2. What kind of organization was the Compagnia di San Luca that Leonardo joined in 1472?

3. What was the fate of Giacomo Andrea, the man who was a student of Vitruvius's works and was like a brother to Leonardo?

4. What type of paint did Leonardo use to create the work entitled Lady with an Ermine?

5. What is the term for the technique that uses contrasts of light and shadow in order to achieve the appearance of three dimensions in a two-dimensional work?

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