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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. 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) 120.
(b) 20.
(c) 60.
(d) 500.

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

3. While the study of anatomy was pursued primarily by artists in Florence, the study of anatomy in Milan was undertaken mostly by what group of people?
(a) Medical scholars.
(b) Sculptors.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Clerics.

4. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?
(a) Leonardo's stepmother's.
(b) Leonardo's half-brother's.
(c) Leonardo's cousin's.
(d) Leonardo's maternal grandmother's.

5. At one point Leonardo "listed the many practical applications that could come from harnessing the power of" (192) what river?
(a) The Arno River.
(b) The Livenza River.
(c) The Montone River.
(d) The Sillaro River.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early 1490s, Leonardo undertook the task of learning what language?

2. How tall was Michelangelo's statue David?

3. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?

4. Leonardo followed what type of restrictive diet throughout his life?

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

(see the answer key)

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