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

2. What was the name of Leonardo's mother?
(a) Antonia.
(b) Lucrezia.
(c) Caterina.
(d) Piera.

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

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

5. 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?
(a) The Annunciation.
(b) St. Jerome in the Wilderness.
(c) The Adoration of the Magi.
(d) Baptism of Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Leonardo receive his first commission?

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

3. One reason Leonardo could not devise how to square a circle is that a mathematical process for squaring a circle cannot be done with just a compass and a ruler. Instead, it requires what type of number?

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 accused of sodomy?

5. Who was the subject of the portrait entitled Lady with an Ermine?

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