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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. What painting was named by the Louvre in 2012 as Leonardo's ultimate masterpiece?
(a) Vitruvian Man.
(b) Virgin and Child with Saint Anne.
(c) The Mona Lisa.
(d) Virgin of the Rocks.

2. What term did Leonardo eventually use to describe the object he hoped would result in human flight due to the device's flapping wings?
(a) Mosca.
(b) Uccello.
(c) Tricheco.
(d) Anatra.

3. By age five, Leonardo lived primarily with whom?
(a) His birth mother and her husband.
(b) His father and stepmother.
(c) His grandfather Antonio and his wife.
(d) His uncle.

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 up.
(b) Turned away from the viewer.
(c) Clothed and shown from the waist down.
(d) Hiding their nakedness with their hair.

5. Walter Isaacson states that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man perfectly symbolizes the ideal of what?
(a) Humanism.
(b) Science.
(c) Aesthetic beauty.
(d) Individuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did Leonardo inhabit upon his arrival to the court of Ludovico Sforza?

2. After collaborating with Leonardo on a particular painting, Andrea del Verrocchio, Verocchio was reportedly so awed by Leonardo's technique that he never completed another painting on his own. What was the title of the painting on which the two collaborated?

3. What was Leonardo's favorite branch of mathematics?

4. Leonardo's most serious longtime companion held the nickname of Salai, which held what meaning?

5. At one point Leonardo "listed the many practical applications that could come from harnessing the power of" (192) what river?

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