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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: The Nature of Man - Chapter 19: Personal Turmoil.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many godparents gave witness to Leonardo's birth?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

2. The four universal conditions of men, according to Leonardo, were mirth, weeping, fighting, and what?
(a) Labor.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Misery.

3. Leonardo wrote that "Painting is based on perspective and perspective is nothing else than the thorough knowledge of the function of the" (274) what?
(a) The world.
(b) The divine.
(c) The universe.
(d) The eye.

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

5. Who was pope when Leonardo was born?
(a) Pius II.
(b) Paul II.
(c) Alexander VI.
(d) Innocent VIII.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lady with an Ermine is painted on a panel made of what type of wood?

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

3. In the same year that Leonardo was born, Italy began a period of how many peaceful years without war?

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

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

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