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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20: Florence Again - Chapter 25: Michelangelo and the Lost Battles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?
(a) An engineer.
(b) A court physician.
(c) A producer of theater productions.
(d) A portraitist.

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

3. During his prolonged study of optics, Leonardo dissected the eyes of humans and what other animal?
(a) Horses.
(b) Cats.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Cows.

4. 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?
(a) 18.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

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 convicted of sodomy and were sentenced to prison, exile, or death?
(a) 60.
(b) 20.
(c) 500.
(d) 120.

Short Answer Questions

1. Authenticity of Renaissance paintings can be difficult to prove due to what habit of the era's painters?

2. What was Leonardo's main reason for studying anatomy?

3. How old was Leonardo's father Piero when he had a baby with Leonardo's 16-year-old mother?

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

5. The fashions worn by the subject of Lady with an Ermine became fashionable in Milan in 1489 when Gian Galeazzo Sforza was married to whom?

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