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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. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?
(a) Leonardo's stepmother's.
(b) Leonardo's half-brother's.
(c) Leonardo's cousin's.
(d) Leonardo's maternal grandmother's.

2. In the mid-1490s, Leonardo halted his study of anatomy, and would not return to the subject for how many years?
(a) 20.
(b) 30.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

3. What role did Leonardo inhabit upon his arrival to the court of Ludovico Sforza?
(a) A portraitist.
(b) An engineer.
(c) A producer of pageants.
(d) A fashion designer.

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

5. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?
(a) Clay.
(b) Plaster.
(c) Papier mache.
(d) Aluminum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which friend of Leonardo's developed the first widely-published system for double-entry bookkeeping?

2. Lorenzo de' Medici, a great supporter of the arts in Florence, founded and funded Florence's first public what?

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

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

5. Visual perception occurs along the entire area of what part of the eye?

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