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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'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 secretary.
(c) His treasurer.
(d) His court jester.

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

3. Leonardo followed what type of restrictive diet throughout his life?
(a) Pescatarian.
(b) Fruitarian.
(c) Pollotarian.
(d) Vegetarian.

4. In the late years of what decade did Leonardo begin to devise contraptions that would enable human flight?
(a) 1490s.
(b) 1480s.
(c) 1500s.
(d) 1460s.

5. Who used Cesare Borgia as a model of cleverness in his work The Prince?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Boccaccio.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Dante.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How many illegitimate children did Pope Alexander VI have?

3. From what age had Isabella been betrothed to Francesco Gonzaga, the Marquess of Mantua, when they married?

4. What was the function of the official known as a count palatine?

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

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