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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. What term did Leonardo eventually use to describe the object he hoped would result in human flight due to the device's flapping wings?
(a) Anatra.
(b) Uccello.
(c) Tricheco.
(d) Mosca.

2. Who was the subject of the portrait entitled Lady with an Ermine?
(a) Lucrezia Borgia.
(b) Cecilia Gallerina.
(c) Salai.
(d) Caterina Sforza.

3. Even though Isabella told Leonardo that she would pay whatever he wished for a painting, he declined. Who then stepped in to offer Isabella one of his own paintings?
(a) Salai.
(b) Boticelli.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Verracchio.

4. The squaring of a circle was a concept first discovered and discussed by what great thinker?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Hippocrates.

5. Ludovico Sforza committed what act in order to seize the ducal crown?
(a) Drowned his father.
(b) Stabbed his brother.
(c) Burned the home of his uncle.
(d) Poisoned his nephew.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo's most intense technological interest during his time in Rome involved what objects?

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

3. Leonardo's work entitled Codex Madrid I is largely devoted to the design of what?

4. How old was Salai when he came to live with Leonardo?

5. Leonardo's packing list for his journey to enter the service of Cesare Borgia did NOT include which of the following items?

(see the answer key)

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