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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. The commission of what art piece led to Leonardo's official appointment in the court of Ludovico Sforza and its accompanying salary and accommodations?
(a) The spire of the Milan Cathedral.
(b) The Last Supper.
(c) A massive horse monument.
(d) Lady with an Ermine.

2. How was the model of Leonardo's horse monument destroyed in 1499?
(a) It burnt to the ground.
(b) French archers used it for target practice.
(c) Heavy rains degraded its foundation.
(d) Vandals smashed it under cover of night.

3. Rather than being a surname of Leonardo's, what does the phrase "da Vinci" indicate?
(a) Leonardo's status as a polymath.
(b) Leonardo's illegitimate status.
(c) Leonardo's hailing from the town of Vinci.
(d) Leonardo's status as his father's firstborn son.

4. In what season of 1452 was Leonardo born?
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Autumn.

5. What term did Leonardo eventually use to describe the object he hoped would result in human flight due to the device's flapping wings?
(a) Anatra.
(b) Mosca.
(c) Uccello.
(d) Tricheco.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did Leonardo inhabit upon his arrival to the court of Ludovico Sforza?

2. What is the term for the technique Leonardo invented that sought to blend shadows and lights so that no borders or lines were apparent?

3. When Sigmund Freud wrote a short book psychoanalyzing Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering over his crib, Freud mistakenly analyzed the symbolism of what type of bird visiting Leonardo?

4. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?

5. Leonardo insisted that all boundaries within both art and nature were what?

(see the answer key)

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