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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. Leonardo's work entitled Codex Madrid I is largely devoted to the design of what?
(a) Irrigation techniques.
(b) More efficient machinery.
(c) A perpetual motion machine.
(d) River diversion techniques.

2. Who used Cesare Borgia as a model of cleverness in his work The Prince?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Boccaccio.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Dante.

3. The first version of Leonardo's painting Virgin of the Rocks was completed in what year?
(a) 1495.
(b) 1475.
(c) 1485.
(d) 1465.

4. The child featured in Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yardwinder is reaching for what object?
(a) A cloud.
(b) A cross.
(c) His mother's hair.
(d) A jewel.

5. Whose work on shadows did Leonardo study?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sisyphus.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In whose honor was the horse monument intended to be created, with a sculpture of his likeness to be placed upon the back of the horse?

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

4. Walter Isaacson states that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man perfectly symbolizes the ideal of what?

5. Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on what part of the body?

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