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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the world of the Renaissance, what did a white ermine represent?
(a) Wrath.
(b) Elegance.
(c) Style.
(d) Purity.

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

3. In May of 1504, Isabella gave up on her quest to get Leonardo to paint her portrait, telling him that instead he could paint a portrait for her of what person?
(a) Mary Magdalene.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Lucrezia Borgia.

4. Who wrote the book On Painting, which became a Bible for Leonardo?
(a) Cesare Borgia.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Leon Battista Alberti.
(d) Salai.

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

6. The four universal conditions of men, according to Leonardo, were mirth, weeping, fighting, and what?
(a) Labor.
(b) Anger.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Misery.

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

8. Ludovico Sforza committed what act in order to seize the ducal crown?
(a) Burned the home of his uncle.
(b) Drowned his father.
(c) Stabbed his brother.
(d) Poisoned his nephew.

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

10. In 1489, the portrait subject of Lady with an Ermine was 15 years old and lived not with her family, but with whom?
(a) Pope Alexander II.
(b) Cesare Borgia.
(c) Ludovico Sforza.
(d) Giovanni Sforza.

11. Around the time Leonardo began his most famous lost painting, he also undertook what life change?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Baptism.
(c) Adoption.
(d) Relocation.

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

13. The Marquess of Mantua, Francesco Gonzaga, was taken hostage for three years in what location?
(a) Venice.
(b) Rome.
(c) Milan.
(d) Florence.

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

15. Leonardo insisted that all boundaries within both art and nature were what?
(a) Blurred.
(b) Distinct.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Impossible.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Leonardo moved back to Florence in 1500, in what type of location did he take up residence?

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

3. What caused Leonardo's Madonna of the Yardwinder to become one of his most influential paintings?

4. Santissima Annunziata had a library with how many volumes of books?

5. Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on what part of the body?

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