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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) Columns.
(c) Pieces of fruit.
(d) Hands.

2. The center of medical research in Milan during the Renaissance was what university?
(a) The University of Catania.
(b) The University of Pavia.
(c) The University of Bologna.
(d) The University of Sannio.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Even though Isabella told Leonardo that she would pay whatever he wished for a painting, he declined. Who then stepped in to offer Isabella one of his own paintings?

3. What painting was named by the Louvre in 2012 as Leonardo's ultimate masterpiece?

4. What height did Leonardo plan his horse monument to reach once completed?

5. Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on what part of the body?

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