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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26: Return to Milan - Chapter 33: Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who acted as Leonardo's new patron after Leonardo left the service of Cesare Borgia?
(a) The Duke of Milan.
(b) Giovanni Sforza.
(c) Charles d'Amboise.
(d) King Louis XII.

2. Around the time Leonardo was working on his work entitled Salvator Mundi, he was doing optic studies that investigated how the eyes perform what action?
(a) Focus.
(b) Blink.
(c) Remain moist.
(d) Produce tears.

3. The parts of a scene that get the most direct light have the greatest saturation of what?
(a) Texture.
(b) Shadow.
(c) Color.
(d) Paint.

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?
(a) Three wise men who had been removed from the final piece.
(b) A second painting under the first.
(c) An underdrawing used to compose the painting.
(d) Three prophets who had been removed from the final piece.

5. Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on what part of the body?
(a) The human femur.
(b) The human skull.
(c) The human vertebrae.
(d) The human heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Leonardo's most commonly drawn doodle subject?

2. Besides Leonardo, how many children did his father Piero have during his lifetime?

3. Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yarnwinder was completed at the request of which courtier within the court of Louis XII?

4. At one point Leonardo "listed the many practical applications that could come from harnessing the power of" (192) what river?

5. What are diabase?

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