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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Personal Life - Chapter 13: Math.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Leonardo often drew and painted full-body male nudes, by contrast, almost all of the women he painted were what?
(a) Turned away from the viewer.
(b) Clothed and shown from the waist up.
(c) Clothed and shown from the waist down.
(d) Hiding their nakedness with their hair.

2. The squaring of a circle was a concept first discovered and discussed by what great thinker?
(a) Hippocrates.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

3. Walter Isaacson states that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man perfectly symbolizes the ideal of what?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Aesthetic beauty.
(c) Science.
(d) Humanism.

4. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?
(a) Leonardo's stepmother's.
(b) Leonardo's maternal grandmother's.
(c) Leonardo's half-brother's.
(d) Leonardo's cousin's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo's first studies of flight were completed as a means to create which type of art?

2. What height did Leonardo plan his horse monument to reach once completed?

3. At one point Leonardo "listed the many practical applications that could come from harnessing the power of" (192) what river?

4. Leonardo believed that deep observation must be done in what manner?

5. Much of Leonardo's thinking regarding birds was gathered into a notebook now known as the Codex on the Flight of Birds. How many folios are present within that notebook?

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