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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. In May of 1507, Leonardo was involved in choreographing the celebrations of whose visit to Milan?
(a) King Louis XII.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) King James I.
(d) King Louis XIV.

2. The first version of Leonardo's painting Virgin of the Rocks was completed in what year?
(a) 1495.
(b) 1485.
(c) 1475.
(d) 1465.

3. On what day of the week was Leonardo born?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Sunday.

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

5. Isaacson writes that "No scientist before Leonardo had methodically shown how birds" (183) perform what action?
(a) Dive.
(b) Land.
(c) Take off.
(d) Stay aloft.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the process of human dissection was common and accepted in both Florence and Milan during Leonardo's lifetime, it was neither common nor accepted in which city?

2. The profile pose was the standard for portraits of what type of people during the Renaissance?

3. The squaring of a circle was a concept first discovered and discussed by what great thinker?

4. What item of clothing did Leonardo insist upon wearing, even though it was antithetical to the fashions of the time?

5. The four universal conditions of men, according to Leonardo, were mirth, weeping, fighting, and what?

(see the answer key)

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