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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. What was the function of the official known as a count palatine?
(a) To mediate local disputes between citizens.
(b) To assess a child's ability to enter a particular trade.
(c) To award custody of children to non-related legal guardians.
(d) To enact the legal process of legitimizing children.

2. Which friend of Leonardo's developed the first widely-published system for double-entry bookkeeping?
(a) Corte Vecchia.
(b) Luca Pacioli.
(c) Salai.
(d) Ludovico Sforza.

3. Walter Isaacson states that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man perfectly symbolizes the ideal of what?
(a) Science.
(b) Humanism.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Aesthetic beauty.

4. What was the population of Florence when Leonardo moved there in 1464?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 60,000.

5. Tempera paints were used by artists in Italy prior to the arrival of oil painting. Oil painting came to Italy from what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Belgium.
(c) The Netherlands.
(d) Switzerland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who used Cesare Borgia as a model of cleverness in his work The Prince?

2. Santissima Annunziata was located three blocks away from the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital, where Leonardo conducted what activity?

3. How soon after Leonardo's birth did his father Piero marry Albiera, Leonardo's stepmother?

4. In 2009, technicians were able to use infrared imaging techniques in order to expose what hidden piece of Leonardo's first version of Virgin of the Rocks?

5. The Florentine tradition known as disegno lineamentum used what to create forms and designs?

(see the answer key)

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