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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia at the age of 50, how old was Cesare Borgia?
(a) 26.
(b) 21.
(c) 35.
(d) 40.

2. 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) Stippling.
(b) Crosshatching.
(c) Curves.
(d) Shadows.

3. How tall was Michelangelo's statue David?
(a) 12 feet.
(b) 10 feet.
(c) 17 feet.
(d) 45 feet.

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

5. Who used Cesare Borgia as a model of cleverness in his work The Prince?
(a) Boccaccio.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Dante.
(d) Machiavelli.

6. What are diabase?
(a) Sedimentary rocks.
(b) Intrusive igneous rocks.
(c) Metamorphic rocks.
(d) River curves.

7. Santissima Annunziata was located three blocks away from the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital, where Leonardo conducted what activity?
(a) Conducting experiments on patients.
(b) Nursing the injured.
(c) Receiving blood treatments.
(d) Dissections.

8. Rather than being shown in profile, as was traditional, the subject of Lady with an Ermine is shown in what way?
(a) From the neck up.
(b) In full frontal view.
(c) In three-quarters view.
(d) From the knees up.

9. The fashions worn by the subject of Lady with an Ermine became fashionable in Milan in 1489 when Gian Galeazzo Sforza was married to whom?
(a) Lucrezia Borgia.
(b) The Duchess of Cypress.
(c) Catherine of Aragon.
(d) Isabella of Aragon.

10. One of Leonardo's most famous lost paintings is entitled Lena and the what?
(a) Peacock.
(b) Dove.
(c) Swan.
(d) Albatross.

11. In the mid-1490s, Leonardo halted his study of anatomy, and would not return to the subject for how many years?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

12. Authenticity of Renaissance paintings can be difficult to prove due to what habit of the era's painters?
(a) They never worked alone.
(b) They did not sign their work.
(c) They did not believe in auteurism.
(d) They all painted using similar styles.

13. Leonardo's Vitruvian Man was the product of his visit to the university in which Italian city?
(a) Rome.
(b) Padua.
(c) Pavia.
(d) Milan.

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

15. Leonardo wrote that "Painting is based on perspective and perspective is nothing else than the thorough knowledge of the function of the" (274) what?
(a) The world.
(b) The eye.
(c) The divine.
(d) The universe.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Around the time Leonardo began his most famous lost painting, he also undertook what life change?

3. During Savonarola's rule of Florence, a militia of what was organized to police the streets and to enforce moral righteousness?

4. The typical human has how many teeth?

5. What type of paint did Leonardo use to create the work entitled Lady with an Ermine?

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