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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 believed that the secret to modeling three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface was not the use of lines, but instead the use of what?
(a) Crosshatching.
(b) Shadows.
(c) Curves.
(d) Stippling.

2. In 1489, the portrait subject of Lady with an Ermine was 15 years old and lived not with her family, but with whom?
(a) Giovanni Sforza.
(b) Pope Alexander II.
(c) Ludovico Sforza.
(d) Cesare Borgia.

3. When Leonardo went to Venice in 1500 in order to offer military advice to defend against a threatened invasion, which country was threatening to invade Venice?
(a) Egypt.
(b) France.
(c) Austria.
(d) Turkey.

4. Leonardo's Vitruvian Man was the product of his visit to the university in which Italian city?
(a) Pavia.
(b) Rome.
(c) Milan.
(d) Padua.

5. What was the name of Leonardo's mother?
(a) Lucrezia.
(b) Piera.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Caterina.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Leonardo's first studies of flight were completed as a means to create which type of art?

3. The squaring of a circle was a concept first discovered and discussed by what great thinker?

4. Leonardo's work entitled Codex Madrid I is largely devoted to the design of what?

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

(see the answer key)

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