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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During Savonarola's rule of Florence, a militia of what was organized to police the streets and to enforce moral righteousness?
(a) Monks.
(b) Flagellants.
(c) Young boys.
(d) Clerics.

2. The first version of Leonardo's painting Virgin of the Rocks was completed in what year?
(a) 1485.
(b) 1475.
(c) 1465.
(d) 1495.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

7. How many other portraits of women had Leonardo completed prior to creating Lady with an Ermine?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

8. From what age had Isabella been betrothed to Francesco Gonzaga, the Marquess of Mantua, when they married?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Thirteen.

9. What was Leonardo's main reason for studying anatomy?
(a) To improve his art.
(b) To impress his friends in the medical field.
(c) To publish his discoveries.
(d) To gain admittance to medical school.

10. 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 divine.
(b) The universe.
(c) The eye.
(d) The world.

11. Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yarnwinder was completed at the request of which courtier within the court of Louis XII?
(a) His court jester.
(b) His scribe.
(c) His secretary.
(d) His treasurer.

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

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

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

15. When he returned to Florence once again in 1500, Leonardo set up what type of workshop?
(a) Collaborative.
(b) Secret.
(c) Medical.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom did Isabella borrow a portrait by Leonardo so that she could decide which artist should paint her portrait?

2. The Marquess of Mantua, Francesco Gonzaga, was taken hostage for three years in what location?

3. While the study of anatomy was pursued primarily by artists in Florence, the study of anatomy in Milan was undertaken mostly by what group of people?

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

5. How many illegitimate children did Pope Alexander VI have?

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