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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During his prolonged study of optics, Leonardo dissected the eyes of humans and what other animal?
(a) Cows.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Horses.
(d) Cats.

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

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

5. Leonardo's Madonna of the Yardwinder is about the size of what?
(a) A page of a tabloid newspaper.
(b) A page of a paperback novel.
(c) A map.
(d) A dinner plate.

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

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

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

9. 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 femur.
(d) The human skull.

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

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

12. 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 all painted using similar styles.
(c) They never worked alone.
(d) They did not believe in auteurism.

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

14. In what year did Savonarola lead what became known as the Bonfire of the Vanities?
(a) 1487.
(b) 1477.
(c) 1517.
(d) 1497.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The child featured in Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yardwinder is reaching for what object?

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

3. The drawing entitled Head of a Young Woman is an "exquisite example of Leonardo's use of" what "to create shadows and texture"? (234)

4. Who wrote the book On Painting, which became a Bible for Leonardo?

5. Leonardo's first version of the painting Virgin of the Rocks is housed in what museum?

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