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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. Leonardo was the first person to correctly depict what aspect of the human body?
(a) The valves of the heart.
(b) The joints.
(c) The frontal sinus.
(d) The heel bone.

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

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

4. Visual perception occurs along the entire area of what part of the eye?
(a) The pupil.
(b) The vitreous humor.
(c) The iris.
(d) The retina.

5. In 1489, the portrait subject of Lady with an Ermine was 15 years old and lived not with her family, but with whom?
(a) Pope Alexander II.
(b) Cesare Borgia.
(c) Giovanni Sforza.
(d) Ludovico Sforza.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?

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

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

4. How many years after Leonardo's birth was Galileo born?

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

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