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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26: Return to Milan - Chapter 33: Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Florentine tradition known as disegno lineamentum used what to create forms and designs?
(a) Lines.
(b) Compasses.
(c) Circles.
(d) Shadows.

3. What is meant by the words "Il sole no si muove"? (439)
(a) The sun does not move.
(b) The earth does not move.
(c) The foot does not move.
(d) The soul does not move.

4. Leonardo followed what type of restrictive diet throughout his life?
(a) Pollotarian.
(b) Vegetarian.
(c) Pescatarian.
(d) Fruitarian.

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) Mosca.
(b) Tricheco.
(c) Anatra.
(d) Uccello.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the study of anatomy was pursued primarily by artists in Florence, the study of anatomy in Milan was undertaken mostly by what group of people?

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

3. Isaacson writes that "No scientist before Leonardo had methodically shown how birds" (183) perform what action?

4. Cesare Borgia became the first man in history to perform what action?

5. 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?

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