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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: The Nature of Man - Chapter 19: Personal Turmoil.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leonardo's most serious longtime companion held the nickname of Salai, which held what meaning?
(a) Divine One.
(b) Little Devil.
(c) Prankster.
(d) Lover of the Arts.

2. Rather than being a surname of Leonardo's, what does the phrase "da Vinci" indicate?
(a) Leonardo's hailing from the town of Vinci.
(b) Leonardo's illegitimate status.
(c) Leonardo's status as a polymath.
(d) Leonardo's status as his father's firstborn son.

3. During the 70 years following the creation of The Officers of the Night in 1432, an average of how many men per year were convicted of sodomy and were sentenced to prison, exile, or death?
(a) 20.
(b) 500.
(c) 60.
(d) 120.

4. In the late years of what decade did Leonardo begin to devise contraptions that would enable human flight?
(a) 1480s.
(b) 1500s.
(c) 1490s.
(d) 1460s.

5. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?
(a) 1477.
(b) 1462.
(c) 1498.
(d) 1490.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo believed that deep observation must be done in what manner?

2. Leonardo's first studies of flight were completed as a means to create which type of art?

3. Whose work on shadows did Leonardo study?

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

5. Leonardo wrote that, "Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without" (175) what two items?

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