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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) Breed them.
(b) Give them as gifts.
(c) Use them in experiments.
(d) Set them free.

2. Which European city had the greatest percentage of literate citizens in 1472?
(a) Barcelona.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Florence.
(d) Milan.

3. What item of clothing did Leonardo insist upon wearing, even though it was antithetical to the fashions of the time?
(a) A knee-length cloak.
(b) An ascot.
(c) Breeches.
(d) Cunibert shoes.

4. The drawing entitled Head of a Young Woman is an "exquisite example of Leonardo's use of" what "to create shadows and texture"? (234)
(a) Stippling.
(b) Doodling.
(c) Hatching.
(d) Scribbing.

5. In what year did Savonarola lead what became known as the Bonfire of the Vanities?
(a) 1497.
(b) 1517.
(c) 1487.
(d) 1477.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Salai when he came to live with Leonardo?

2. 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?

3. What painting was named by the Louvre in 2012 as Leonardo's ultimate masterpiece?

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

5. Leonardo wrote that what type of light is best for a portrait?

(see the answer key)

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