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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leonardo's packing list for his journey to enter the service of Cesare Borgia did NOT include which of the following items?
(a) A pair of compasses.
(b) A book of white paper for drawing.
(c) A sword belt.
(d) A scalpel.

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

3. The profile pose was the standard for portraits of what type of people during the Renaissance?
(a) Illegitimate heirs.
(b) Women.
(c) Royalty.
(d) Men.

4. Who was the subject of the portrait entitled Lady with an Ermine?
(a) Lucrezia Borgia.
(b) Cecilia Gallerina.
(c) Caterina Sforza.
(d) Salai.

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

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

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

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

9. 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?
(a) Catherine of Aragon.
(b) Lucrezia Borgia.
(c) Isabella of Aragon.
(d) The Duchess of Cypress.

10. 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.

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

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

13. 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) Jesus.
(b) Lucrezia Borgia.
(c) Mary Magdalene.
(d) Aristotle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other portraits of women had Leonardo completed prior to creating Lady with an Ermine?

2. 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?

3. Ludovico Sforza committed what act in order to seize the ducal crown?

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

5. Leonardo wrote that what type of light is best for a portrait?

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