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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. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?
(a) Florenzer.
(b) Florette.
(c) Florencier.
(d) Flor.

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

3. From whom did Isabella borrow a portrait by Leonardo so that she could decide which artist should paint her portrait?
(a) Cecilia Gallerina.
(b) Lucrezia Borgia.
(c) Salai.
(d) Ludovico Borgia.

4. What family controlled the republic in place in Florence at the time of Leonardo's arrival in the city?
(a) The Borgias.
(b) The Medicis.
(c) The Orsinis.
(d) The Machiavellis.

5. How did Florence save itself from plunder by Cesare Borgia and his armies?
(a) Officials paid an annual bribe.
(b) The city's merchants promised a percentage of their sales.
(c) The city's army defeated the forces with cannon fire.
(d) Officials promised loyalty in perpetuity.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 70 years following the creation of The Officers of the Night in 1432, an average of how many men per year were accused of sodomy?

2. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?

3. The fashions worn by the subject of Lady with an Ermine became fashionable in Milan in 1489 when Gian Galeazzo Sforza was married to whom?

4. How tall was Michelangelo's statue David?

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

(see the answer key)

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