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

2. In what year did Johannes Gutenberg begin selling Bibles created on his newly-invented printing press?
(a) 1348.
(b) 1501.
(c) 1489.
(d) 1452.

3. In the late years of what decade did Leonardo begin to devise contraptions that would enable human flight?
(a) 1500s.
(b) 1480s.
(c) 1490s.
(d) 1460s.

4. How tall was Michelangelo's statue David?
(a) 10 feet.
(b) 45 feet.
(c) 12 feet.
(d) 17 feet.

5. Around the time Leonardo began his most famous lost painting, he also undertook what life change?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Adoption.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Relocation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?

2. Leonardo believed that the secret to modeling three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface was not the use of lines, but instead the use of what?

3. 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?

4. When Sigmund Freud wrote a short book psychoanalyzing Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering over his crib, Freud mistakenly analyzed the symbolism of what type of bird visiting Leonardo?

5. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?

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