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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. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?
(a) 1490.
(b) 1477.
(c) 1498.
(d) 1462.

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

3. What position was held by legitimate first-born sons in Leonardo's family, stretching back at least five generations?
(a) Notary.
(b) Banker.
(c) Tax collector.
(d) Dentist.

4. How many years after Leonardo's birth was Galileo born?
(a) 6.
(b) 82.
(c) 112.
(d) 50.

5. Leonardo wrote that what type of light is best for a portrait?
(a) Muted.
(b) Bright.
(c) Marbled.
(d) Shadowed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?

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

4. How old was Francesco Melvi when he was adopted by Leonardo?

5. Tempera paints were used by artists in Italy prior to the arrival of oil painting. Oil painting came to Italy from what country?

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