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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. Leonardo's first version of the painting Virgin of the Rocks is housed in what museum?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) Musée des Troupes de Montagne.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie.

2. In whose honor was the horse monument intended to be created, with a sculpture of his likeness to be placed upon the back of the horse?
(a) Duke Francesco.
(b) Cesare Borgia.
(c) Ludovico Sforza.
(d) Pope Alexander VI.

3. Leonardo believed that the secret to modeling three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface was not the use of lines, but instead the use of what?
(a) Crosshatching.
(b) Curves.
(c) Shadows.
(d) Stippling.

4. Whose work on shadows did Leonardo study?
(a) Sisyphus.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Archimedes.

5. In addition to surmising that sound and light travel in waves, what else did Leonardo believe traveled in waves?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Karma.
(c) Weather patterns.
(d) Rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. When he returned to Florence once again in 1500, Leonardo set up what type of workshop?

2. Which friend of Leonardo's developed the first widely-published system for double-entry bookkeeping?

3. What was the function of the official known as a count palatine?

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

5. During Leonardo's time in Rome with Pope Leo, he was much more interested in what two subjects than he was in painting?

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