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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. Of what material was the horse monument to be made?
(a) Plaster.
(b) Copper.
(c) Silver.
(d) Bronze.

2. Leonardo's packing list for his journey to enter the service of Cesare Borgia did NOT include which of the following items?
(a) A scalpel.
(b) A pair of compasses.
(c) A book of white paper for drawing.
(d) A sword belt.

3. What was the population of Florence in 1300 before the devastation caused by the Black Death?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 140,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 50,000.

4. In what year did Leonardo start his second round of anatomical studies?
(a) 1508.
(b) 1518.
(c) 1523.
(d) 1500.

5. When Leonardo first came to Milan in 1482, he had hopes of working primarily as a what?
(a) A producer of theater productions.
(b) A portraitist.
(c) A court physician.
(d) An engineer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?

2. 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?

3. In what year was Leonardo brought to Florence to live with his father?

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

5. One of Leonardo's most famous lost paintings is entitled Lena and the what?

(see the answer key)

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