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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. The most basic anatomical knowledge for a painter is the study of what?
(a) Muscles.
(b) Ligaments.
(c) Bones.
(d) Tendons.

2. What are diabase?
(a) Metamorphic rocks.
(b) Sedimentary rocks.
(c) Intrusive igneous rocks.
(d) River curves.

3. During Savonarola's rule of Florence, a militia of what was organized to police the streets and to enforce moral righteousness?
(a) Monks.
(b) Flagellants.
(c) Clerics.
(d) Young boys.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Leonardo insisted that all boundaries within both art and nature were what?

3. One reason Leonardo could not devise how to square a circle is that a mathematical process for squaring a circle cannot be done with just a compass and a ruler. Instead, it requires what type of number?

4. When he returned to Florence once again in 1500, Leonardo set up what type of workshop?

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?

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