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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The Florentine tradition known as disegno lineamentum used what to create forms and designs?
(a) Lines.
(b) Circles.
(c) Compasses.
(d) Shadows.

5. What type of paint did Leonardo use to create the work entitled Lady with an Ermine?
(a) Lead.
(b) Watercolor.
(c) Oil.
(d) Tempera.

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

7. The parts of a scene that get the most direct light have the greatest saturation of what?
(a) Paint.
(b) Texture.
(c) Shadow.
(d) Color.

8. When Leonardo moved back to Florence in 1500, in what type of location did he take up residence?
(a) In a university apartment.
(b) In his father's home.
(c) In a church.
(d) In a convent.

9. 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?
(a) Blink.
(b) Remain moist.
(c) Produce tears.
(d) Focus.

10. The drawing entitled Head of a Young Woman is an "exquisite example of Leonardo's use of" what "to create shadows and texture"? (234)
(a) Doodling.
(b) Hatching.
(c) Scribbing.
(d) Stippling.

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

12. Leonardo's first version of the painting Virgin of the Rocks is housed in what museum?
(a) Musée des Troupes de Montagne.
(b) Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) The Louvre.

13. 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?
(a) Three prophets who had been removed from the final piece.
(b) An underdrawing used to compose the painting.
(c) Three wise men who had been removed from the final piece.
(d) A second painting under the first.

14. 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) France.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Austria.
(d) Egypt.

15. Visual perception occurs along the entire area of what part of the eye?
(a) The retina.
(b) The pupil.
(c) The vitreous humor.
(d) The iris.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first version of Leonardo's painting Virgin of the Rocks was completed in what year?

2. The center of medical research in Milan during the Renaissance was what university?

3. 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?

4. In the world of the Renaissance, what did a white ermine represent?

5. What was Leonardo's main reason for studying anatomy?

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