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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 known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?
(a) Breed them.
(b) Use them in experiments.
(c) Give them as gifts.
(d) Set them free.

2. On what day of the week was Leonardo born?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Friday.

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

4. Rather than being shown in profile, as was traditional, the subject of Lady with an Ermine is shown in what way?
(a) In three-quarters view.
(b) In full frontal view.
(c) From the knees up.
(d) From the neck up.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the population of Florence when Leonardo moved there in 1464?

3. 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?

4. Visual perception occurs along the entire area of what part of the eye?

5. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?

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