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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26: Return to Milan - Chapter 33: Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Walter Isaacson, what was the paramount theme in Leonardo's art?
(a) The spiritual connection between the earth and humans.
(b) The contrast between love and hate.
(c) Familial connections.
(d) Religious zeal.

2. What Bible story did Leonardo refute in his treatise on fossils?
(a) The healing of the blind.
(b) The changing of water into wine.
(c) The great flood.
(d) The parting of the Red Sea.

3. Besides Leonardo, how many children did his father Piero have during his lifetime?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 13.
(d) 6.

4. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?
(a) Florencier.
(b) Florette.
(c) Florenzer.
(d) Flor.

5. Who wrote the book On Painting, which became a Bible for Leonardo?
(a) Leon Battista Alberti.
(b) Cesare Borgia.
(c) Salai.
(d) Michelangelo.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the man's name who became Pope Alexander VI?

4. 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?

5. Leonardo's first version of the painting Virgin of the Rocks is housed in what museum?

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