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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. What kind of organization was the Compagnia di San Luca that Leonardo joined in 1472?
(a) A guild.
(b) A religious organization.
(c) A co-op.
(d) A painters' fraternity.

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

3. The four universal conditions of men, according to Leonardo, were mirth, weeping, fighting, and what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Labor.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Misery.

4. What are diabase?
(a) Metamorphic rocks.
(b) Sedimentary rocks.
(c) Intrusive igneous rocks.
(d) River curves.

5. Leonardo's work entitled Codex Madrid I is largely devoted to the design of what?
(a) More efficient machinery.
(b) Irrigation techniques.
(c) A perpetual motion machine.
(d) River diversion techniques.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo first tackled the complexities of depicting shadows when drawing what kinds of objects during his training in Verrocchio's art studio?

2. The profile pose was the standard for portraits of what type of people during the Renaissance?

3. Authenticity of Renaissance paintings can be difficult to prove due to what habit of the era's painters?

4. What was the man's name who became Pope Alexander VI?

5. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?

(see the answer key)

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