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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's Madonna of the Yardwinder is about the size of what?
(a) A page of a tabloid newspaper.
(b) A dinner plate.
(c) A map.
(d) A page of a paperback novel.

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

3. Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering above his crib when he was an infant involved what type of bird?
(a) An osprey.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A bluebird.
(d) A kite.

4. How did the friar Savonarola die?
(a) He was burned and hanged.
(b) He drowned.
(c) He committed suicide.
(d) He was drawn and quartered.

5. In what year did Johannes Gutenberg begin selling Bibles created on his newly-invented printing press?
(a) 1489.
(b) 1452.
(c) 1501.
(d) 1348.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo insisted that all boundaries within both art and nature were what?

2. Lady with an Ermine is painted on a panel made of what type of wood?

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

4. Who was the subject of the portrait entitled Lady with an Ermine?

5. Authenticity of Renaissance paintings can be difficult to prove due to what habit of the era's painters?

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