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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20: Florence Again - Chapter 25: Michelangelo and the Lost Battles.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the early 1490s, Leonardo undertook the task of learning what language?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Latin.
(c) French.
(d) Greek.

3. Leonardo believed that deep observation must be done in what manner?
(a) In steps.
(b) In a group.
(c) Improvisationally.
(d) Quickly.

4. What was different about Leonardo's drawings of machines than those of his contemporaries?
(a) Leonardo's drawings were never shown to anyone.
(b) Leonardo drew all of the different pieces of the machine separately.
(c) Leonardo's drawings were done using charcoal.
(d) Leonardo's drawings did not use color.

5. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?
(a) Breed them.
(b) Give them as gifts.
(c) Set them free.
(d) Use them in experiments.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?

2. During his prolonged study of optics, Leonardo dissected the eyes of humans and what other animal?

3. When he returned to Florence once again in 1500, Leonardo set up what type of workshop?

4. When Donato Bramante was hired by Ludovico Sforza to remodel the dining hall of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, what painting was Leonardo hired to create on the dining hall's wall?

5. What item of clothing did Leonardo insist upon wearing, even though it was antithetical to the fashions of the time?

(see the answer key)

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