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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. In the late years of what decade did Leonardo begin to devise contraptions that would enable human flight?
(a) 1500s.
(b) 1480s.
(c) 1490s.
(d) 1460s.

2. Who was the subject of the portrait entitled Lady with an Ermine?
(a) Salai.
(b) Cecilia Gallerina.
(c) Lucrezia Borgia.
(d) Caterina Sforza.

3. Leonardo wrote that, "Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without" (175) what two items?
(a) A rudder and a spyglass.
(b) A compass and a rudder.
(c) A compass and a map.
(d) A map and a spyglass.

4. What is the term for the technique that uses contrasts of light and shadow in order to achieve the appearance of three dimensions in a two-dimensional work?
(a) Staccato.
(b) Chiaroscuro.
(c) Stippling.
(d) Juxtaposition.

5. During the 70 years following the creation of The Officers of the Night in 1432, an average of how many men per year were accused of sodomy?
(a) 800.
(b) 400.
(c) 200.
(d) 1,100.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fraction of Florence's population was literate in 1472?

2. 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?

3. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?

4. What position was held by legitimate first-born sons in Leonardo's family, stretching back at least five generations?

5. In what year did Leonardo receive his first commission?

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