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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. How old was Leonardo's father Piero when he had a baby with Leonardo's 16-year-old mother?
(a) 24.
(b) 36.
(c) 19.
(d) 29.

2. Leonardo's first version of the painting Virgin of the Rocks is housed in what museum?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) Musée des Troupes de Montagne.
(c) Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie.
(d) The Smithsonian.

3. Leonardo's first studies of flight were completed as a means to create which type of art?
(a) Painting.
(b) Storytelling.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Drama.

4. The squaring of a circle was a concept first discovered and discussed by what great thinker?
(a) Plato.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Hippocrates.
(d) Aristotle.

5. What height did Leonardo plan his horse monument to reach once completed?
(a) 20 feet.
(b) 23 feet.
(c) 51 feet.
(d) 14 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. The drawing entitled Head of a Young Woman is an "exquisite example of Leonardo's use of" what "to create shadows and texture"? (234)

2. The four universal conditions of men, according to Leonardo, were mirth, weeping, fighting, and what?

3. Who used Cesare Borgia as a model of cleverness in his work The Prince?

4. Leonardo's Vitruvian Man was the product of his visit to the university in which Italian city?

5. How did Florence save itself from plunder by Cesare Borgia and his armies?

(see the answer key)

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