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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. The four universal conditions of men, according to Leonardo, were mirth, weeping, fighting, and what?
(a) Misery.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Labor.

2. In what year did Savonarola lead what became known as the Bonfire of the Vanities?
(a) 1487.
(b) 1517.
(c) 1497.
(d) 1477.

3. The troops of which French king marched through Italy, putting a halt to Leonardo's creation of the horse monument, since his materials were needed to construct cannon?
(a) King Francis I.
(b) King Henry IV.
(c) King Charles VIII.
(d) King Henry II.

4. How old was Leonardo when Salai came to live with him?
(a) 21.
(b) 50.
(c) 24.
(d) 38.

5. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?
(a) 1462.
(b) 1490.
(c) 1477.
(d) 1498.

Short Answer Questions

1. What painting was named by the Louvre in 2012 as Leonardo's ultimate masterpiece?

2. The squaring of a circle was a concept first discovered and discussed by what great thinker?

3. Of what material was the horse monument to be made?

4. Around the time Leonardo began his most famous lost painting, he also undertook what life change?

5. The child featured in Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yardwinder is reaching for what object?

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