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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20: Florence Again - Chapter 25: Michelangelo and the Lost Battles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Sculptors.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Medical scholars.
(d) Clerics.

2. During Savonarola's rule of Florence, a militia of what was organized to police the streets and to enforce moral righteousness?
(a) Monks.
(b) Clerics.
(c) Flagellants.
(d) Young boys.

3. According to Walter Isaacson, what was the paramount theme in Leonardo's art?
(a) Familial connections.
(b) The spiritual connection between the earth and humans.
(c) Religious zeal.
(d) The contrast between love and hate.

4. Who wrote the book On Painting, which became a Bible for Leonardo?
(a) Cesare Borgia.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Salai.
(d) Leon Battista Alberti.

5. In whose honor was the horse monument intended to be created, with a sculpture of his likeness to be placed upon the back of the horse?
(a) Pope Alexander VI.
(b) Duke Francesco.
(c) Cesare Borgia.
(d) Ludovico Sforza.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the friar Savonarola depose the Medici family and institute a fundamentalist regime in Florence?

2. At one point Leonardo "listed the many practical applications that could come from harnessing the power of" (192) what river?

3. During his prolonged study of optics, Leonardo dissected the eyes of humans and what other animal?

4. On what day of the week was Leonardo born?

5. When Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia at the age of 50, how old was Cesare Borgia?

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