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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. How old was Leonardo's father Piero when he had a baby with Leonardo's 16-year-old mother?
(a) 19.
(b) 29.
(c) 36.
(d) 24.

2. What position was held by legitimate first-born sons in Leonardo's family, stretching back at least five generations?
(a) Tax collector.
(b) Notary.
(c) Banker.
(d) Dentist.

3. Leonardo wrote that what type of light is best for a portrait?
(a) Shadowed.
(b) Marbled.
(c) Muted.
(d) Bright.

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

5. In 2009, technicians were able to use infrared imaging techniques in order to expose what hidden piece of Leonardo's first version of Virgin of the Rocks?
(a) Three prophets who had been removed from the final piece.
(b) A second painting under the first.
(c) Three wise men who had been removed from the final piece.
(d) An underdrawing used to compose the painting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Leonardo was the first person to correctly depict what aspect of the human body?

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 accused of sodomy?

4. On what day of the week was Leonardo born?

5. While Leonardo often drew and painted full-body male nudes, by contrast, almost all of the women he painted were what?

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