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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. In whose honor was the horse monument intended to be created, with a sculpture of his likeness to be placed upon the back of the horse?
(a) Pope Alexander VI.
(b) Cesare Borgia.
(c) Ludovico Sforza.
(d) Duke Francesco.

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

3. 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) Hiding their nakedness with their hair.
(d) Clothed and shown from the waist down.

4. Leonardo wrote that what type of light is best for a portrait?
(a) Marbled.
(b) Shadowed.
(c) Muted.
(d) Bright.

5. Leonardo's first version of the painting Virgin of the Rocks is housed in what museum?
(a) Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) Musée des Troupes de Montagne.
(d) The Smithsonian.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How old was Salai when he came to live with Leonardo?

4. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?

5. On what day of the week was Leonardo born?

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