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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 wrote that, "Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without" (175) what two items?
(a) A rudder and a spyglass.
(b) A compass and a map.
(c) A map and a spyglass.
(d) A compass and a rudder.

2. How tall was Michelangelo's statue David?
(a) 12 feet.
(b) 10 feet.
(c) 45 feet.
(d) 17 feet.

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

4. Pope Alexander VI was the first pope to perform what action?
(a) Excommunicate a heretic.
(b) Divorce his wife.
(c) Get married.
(d) Recognize openly his illegitimate children.

5. When he returned to Florence once again in 1500, Leonardo set up what type of workshop?
(a) Medical.
(b) Collaborative.
(c) Secret.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what material was the horse monument to be made?

2. While Leonardo often drew and painted full-body male nudes, by contrast, almost all of the women he painted were what?

3. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?

4. In what year did Savonarola lead what became known as the Bonfire of the Vanities?

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

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