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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Even though Isabella told Leonardo that she would pay whatever he wished for a painting, he declined. Who then stepped in to offer Isabella one of his own paintings?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Verracchio.
(c) Boticelli.
(d) Salai.

2. 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) An underdrawing used to compose the painting.
(d) Three wise men who had been removed from the final piece.

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

4. 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) Austria.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Egypt.

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

6. 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.

7. 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) Focus.
(b) Produce tears.
(c) Blink.
(d) Remain moist.

8. The typical human has how many teeth?
(a) 36.
(b) 38.
(c) 24.
(d) 32.

9. 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 world.
(c) The eye.
(d) The divine.

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

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

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

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

14. 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?
(a) Sculptors.
(b) Clerics.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Medical scholars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the man's name who became Pope Alexander VI?

2. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?

3. Leonardo was the first person to correctly depict what aspect of the human body?

4. In the mid-1490s, Leonardo halted his study of anatomy, and would not return to the subject for how many years?

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

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