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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 was the population of Florence when Leonardo moved there in 1464?
(a) 60,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 40,000.

2. In addition to surmising that sound and light travel in waves, what else did Leonardo believe traveled in waves?
(a) Karma.
(b) Weather patterns.
(c) Rain.
(d) Emotions.

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

4. Leonardo wrote that, "Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without" (175) what two items?
(a) A map and a spyglass.
(b) A compass and a rudder.
(c) A compass and a map.
(d) A rudder and a spyglass.

5. Ludovico Sforza committed what act in order to seize the ducal crown?
(a) Poisoned his nephew.
(b) Burned the home of his uncle.
(c) Drowned his father.
(d) Stabbed his brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his prolonged study of optics, Leonardo dissected the eyes of humans and what other animal?

2. How tall was Michelangelo's statue David?

3. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?

4. When Leonardo came upon a cave while hiking near Florence, what type of fossilized animal did he discover within the confines of the cave?

5. Upon Leonardo's second return to Milan, how long did he live there?

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