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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) An engineer.
(c) A fashion designer.
(d) A portraitist.

2. In what year was Leonardo brought to Florence to live with his father?
(a) 1451.
(b) 1482.
(c) 1430.
(d) 1464.

3. One of Leonardo's most famous lost paintings is entitled Lena and the what?
(a) Swan.
(b) Dove.
(c) Peacock.
(d) Albatross.

4. Who retook Milan from the French after their period of occupation?
(a) Maximillian Sforza.
(b) Cesare Borgia.
(c) King Louis XII.
(d) Pope Alexander VI.

5. Whose work on shadows did Leonardo study?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Plato.
(d) Sisyphus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo realized that waves do not actually move in what direction?

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

3. The four universal conditions of men, according to Leonardo, were mirth, weeping, fighting, and what?

4. In what season of 1452 was Leonardo born?

5. Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on what part of the body?

(see the answer key)

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