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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. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?
(a) 64.
(b) 212.
(c) 39.
(d) 169.

2. 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) 20.
(b) 120.
(c) 60.
(d) 500.

3. The typical human has how many teeth?
(a) 24.
(b) 32.
(c) 38.
(d) 36.

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

5. Rather than being a surname of Leonardo's, what does the phrase "da Vinci" indicate?
(a) Leonardo's illegitimate status.
(b) Leonardo's status as his father's firstborn son.
(c) Leonardo's hailing from the town of Vinci.
(d) Leonardo's status as a polymath.

Short Answer Questions

1. The troops of which French king marched through Italy, putting a halt to Leonardo's creation of the horse monument, since his materials were needed to construct cannon?

2. What family controlled the republic in place in Florence at the time of Leonardo's arrival in the city?

3. What was different about Leonardo's drawings of machines than those of his contemporaries?

4. Leonardo's most serious longtime companion held the nickname of Salai, which held what meaning?

5. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?

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