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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. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?
(a) Set them free.
(b) Breed them.
(c) Give them as gifts.
(d) Use them in experiments.

2. Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yarnwinder was completed at the request of which courtier within the court of Louis XII?
(a) His scribe.
(b) His treasurer.
(c) His secretary.
(d) His court jester.

3. Tempera paints were used by artists in Italy prior to the arrival of oil painting. Oil painting came to Italy from what country?
(a) Belgium.
(b) The Netherlands.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Germany.

4. How many years after Leonardo's birth was Galileo born?
(a) 50.
(b) 112.
(c) 6.
(d) 82.

5. 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?
(a) Masculinity.
(b) Asexuality.
(c) Youth.
(d) Androgyny.

Short Answer Questions

1. The center of medical research in Milan during the Renaissance was what university?

2. Santissima Annunziata had a library with how many volumes of books?

3. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?

4. When Donato Bramante was hired by Ludovico Sforza to remodel the dining hall of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, what painting was Leonardo hired to create on the dining hall's wall?

5. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?

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