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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26: Return to Milan - Chapter 33: Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Leonardo brought to Florence to live with his father?
(a) 1430.
(b) 1451.
(c) 1482.
(d) 1464.

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

3. Much of Leonardo's thinking regarding birds was gathered into a notebook now known as the Codex on the Flight of Birds. How many folios are present within that notebook?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 18.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was pope when Leonardo was born?

2. Leonardo's Madonna of the Yardwinder is about the size of what?

3. Lady with an Ermine is painted on a panel made of what type of wood?

4. 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?

5. From whom did Isabella borrow a portrait by Leonardo so that she could decide which artist should paint her portrait?

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