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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 wrote that "Painting is based on perspective and perspective is nothing else than the thorough knowledge of the function of the" (274) what?
(a) The divine.
(b) The universe.
(c) The world.
(d) The eye.

2. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?
(a) A producer of theater productions.
(b) A portraitist.
(c) A court physician.
(d) An engineer.

3. Lorenzo de' Medici, a great supporter of the arts in Florence, founded and funded Florence's first public what?
(a) Museum.
(b) Library.
(c) Zoo.
(d) Art studio.

4. Leonardo's work entitled Codex Madrid I is largely devoted to the design of what?
(a) A perpetual motion machine.
(b) River diversion techniques.
(c) More efficient machinery.
(d) Irrigation techniques.

5. What fraction of Florence's population was literate in 1472?
(a) One half.
(b) One fifth.
(c) One quarter.
(d) One third.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo's Vitruvian Man was the product of his visit to the university in which Italian city?

2. Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on what part of the body?

3. What book written by Luca Pacioli included 60 illustrations by Leonardo, the only drawings Leonardo ever published in his lifetime?

4. During the 70 years following the creation of The Officers of the Night in 1432, an average of how many men per year were convicted of sodomy and were sentenced to prison, exile, or death?

5. The typical human has how many teeth?

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