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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: The Nature of Man - Chapter 19: Personal Turmoil.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on what part of the body?
(a) The human heart.
(b) The human femur.
(c) The human vertebrae.
(d) The human skull.

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

3. Leonardo's first version of the painting Virgin of the Rocks is housed in what museum?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie.
(c) Musée des Troupes de Montagne.
(d) The Smithsonian.

4. While Leonardo often drew and painted full-body male nudes, by contrast, almost all of the women he painted were what?
(a) Clothed and shown from the waist down.
(b) Clothed and shown from the waist up.
(c) Turned away from the viewer.
(d) Hiding their nakedness with their hair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What fraction of Florence's population was literate in 1472?

2. When Leonardo came upon a cave while hiking near Florence, what type of fossilized animal did he discover within the confines of the cave?

3. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?

4. What are diabase?

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

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