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

2. What item of clothing did Leonardo insist upon wearing, even though it was antithetical to the fashions of the time?
(a) Breeches.
(b) An ascot.
(c) A knee-length cloak.
(d) Cunibert shoes.

3. What was different about Leonardo's drawings of machines than those of his contemporaries?
(a) Leonardo's drawings did not use color.
(b) Leonardo's drawings were never shown to anyone.
(c) Leonardo drew all of the different pieces of the machine separately.
(d) Leonardo's drawings were done using charcoal.

4. 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?
(a) A vulture.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A starling.
(d) A crane.

5. Isaacson writes that "No scientist before Leonardo had methodically shown how birds" (183) perform what action?
(a) Dive.
(b) Stay aloft.
(c) Take off.
(d) Land.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late years of what decade did Leonardo begin to devise contraptions that would enable human flight?

2. Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering above his crib when he was an infant involved what type of bird?

3. In what year was Leonardo brought to Florence to live with his father?

4. What family controlled the republic in place in Florence at the time of Leonardo's arrival in the city?

5. The squaring of a circle was a concept first discovered and discussed by what great thinker?

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