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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. During Savonarola's rule of Florence, a militia of what was organized to police the streets and to enforce moral righteousness?
(a) Young boys.
(b) Clerics.
(c) Flagellants.
(d) Monks.

2. Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yarnwinder was completed at the request of which courtier within the court of Louis XII?
(a) His scribe.
(b) His secretary.
(c) His court jester.
(d) His treasurer.

3. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?
(a) 39.
(b) 212.
(c) 169.
(d) 64.

4. Leonardo's Vitruvian Man was the product of his visit to the university in which Italian city?
(a) Rome.
(b) Padua.
(c) Milan.
(d) Pavia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early 1490s, Leonardo undertook the task of learning what language?

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

3. Tempera paints were used by artists in Italy prior to the arrival of oil painting. Oil painting came to Italy from what country?

4. When Leonardo moved back to Florence in 1500, in what type of location did he take up residence?

5. In what year was Leonardo brought to Florence to live with his father?

(see the answer key)

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