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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 first tackled the complexities of depicting shadows when drawing what kinds of objects during his training in Verrocchio's art studio?
(a) Draperies.
(b) Hands.
(c) Columns.
(d) Pieces of fruit.

2. In what year did Leonardo receive his first commission?
(a) 1478.
(b) 1452.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1460.

3. In what season of 1452 was Leonardo born?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

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

5. What height did Leonardo plan his horse monument to reach once completed?
(a) 51 feet.
(b) 14 feet.
(c) 23 feet.
(d) 20 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What family controlled the republic in place in Florence at the time of Leonardo's arrival in the city?

2. In what year did the friar Savonarola depose the Medici family and institute a fundamentalist regime in Florence?

3. Whose work on shadows did Leonardo study?

4. During the 70 years following the creation of The Officers of the Night in 1432, an average of how many men per year were convicted of sodomy and were sentenced to prison, exile, or death?

5. How many other portraits of women had Leonardo completed prior to creating Lady with an Ermine?

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