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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 tall was Michelangelo's statue David?
(a) 10 feet.
(b) 17 feet.
(c) 45 feet.
(d) 12 feet.

2. When Leonardo moved back to Florence in 1500, in what type of location did he take up residence?
(a) In a church.
(b) In a convent.
(c) In his father's home.
(d) In a university apartment.

3. How old was Leonardo's father Piero when he had a baby with Leonardo's 16-year-old mother?
(a) 36.
(b) 19.
(c) 29.
(d) 24.

4. The drawing entitled Head of a Young Woman is an "exquisite example of Leonardo's use of" what "to create shadows and texture"? (234)
(a) Scribbing.
(b) Doodling.
(c) Stippling.
(d) Hatching.

5. In 1489, the portrait subject of Lady with an Ermine was 15 years old and lived not with her family, but with whom?
(a) Pope Alexander II.
(b) Cesare Borgia.
(c) Giovanni Sforza.
(d) Ludovico Sforza.

Short Answer Questions

1. Santissima Annunziata had a library with how many volumes of books?

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

3. Walter Isaacson states that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man perfectly symbolizes the ideal of what?

4. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?

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

(see the answer key)

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