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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. One reason Leonardo could not devise how to square a circle is that a mathematical process for squaring a circle cannot be done with just a compass and a ruler. Instead, it requires what type of number?
(a) Natural.
(b) Real.
(c) Rational.
(d) Transcendental.

2. In what year did Leonardo receive his first commission?
(a) 1460.
(b) 1492.
(c) 1478.
(d) 1452.

3. For how many years did the French hold Milan after they ousted Ludovico Sforza?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 13.
(d) 9.

4. Leonardo believed that deep observation must be done in what manner?
(a) Improvisationally.
(b) In a group.
(c) In steps.
(d) Quickly.

5. 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?
(a) King Henry II.
(b) King Charles VIII.
(c) King Henry IV.
(d) King Francis I.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo stated that what element has within itself an infinite number of movements?

2. When he returned to Florence once again in 1500, Leonardo set up what type of workshop?

3. 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?

4. After collaborating with Leonardo on a particular painting, Andrea del Verrocchio, Verocchio was reportedly so awed by Leonardo's technique that he never completed another painting on his own. What was the title of the painting on which the two collaborated?

5. What work was Leonardo in the midst of creating when his father died?

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