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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?
(a) Salai.
(b) Francesco.
(c) Cesare.
(d) Lucrezia.

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

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

6. The most basic anatomical knowledge for a painter is the study of what?
(a) Muscles.
(b) Ligaments.
(c) Bones.
(d) Tendons.

7. In what year did the friar Savonarola depose the Medici family and institute a fundamentalist regime in Florence?
(a) 1503.
(b) 1463.
(c) 1494.
(d) 1452.

8. When Leonardo went to Venice in 1500 in order to offer military advice to defend against a threatened invasion, which country was threatening to invade Venice?
(a) Turkey.
(b) France.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Austria.

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

10. What is the primary characteristic of Leonardo's angel in the painting Virgin of the Rocks that causes it to be much discussed by scholars?
(a) Asexuality.
(b) Androgyny.
(c) Masculinity.
(d) Youth.

11. Lady with an Ermine is painted on a panel made of what type of wood?
(a) Birch.
(b) Teak.
(c) Cherry.
(d) Walnut.

12. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?
(a) A portraitist.
(b) An engineer.
(c) A court physician.
(d) A producer of theater productions.

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

14. Leonardo was the first person to correctly depict what aspect of the human body?
(a) The heel bone.
(b) The joints.
(c) The valves of the heart.
(d) The frontal sinus.

15. Leonardo first tackled the complexities of depicting shadows when drawing what kinds of objects during his training in Verrocchio's art studio?
(a) Pieces of fruit.
(b) Hands.
(c) Columns.
(d) Draperies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Santissima Annunziata was located three blocks away from the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital, where Leonardo conducted what activity?

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?

3. Rather than being shown in profile, as was traditional, the subject of Lady with an Ermine is shown in what way?

4. Leonardo wrote that "Painting is based on perspective and perspective is nothing else than the thorough knowledge of the function of the" (274) what?

5. When Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia at the age of 50, how old was Cesare Borgia?

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