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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. When Sigmund Freud wrote a short book psychoanalyzing Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering over his crib, Freud mistakenly analyzed the symbolism of what type of bird visiting Leonardo?
(a) A starling.
(b) A vulture.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A crane.

2. 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?
(a) Pope Alexander VI.
(b) Ludovico Sforza.
(c) Cesare Borgia.
(d) Duke Francesco.

3. Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on what part of the body?
(a) The human vertebrae.
(b) The human heart.
(c) The human femur.
(d) The human skull.

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

5. What fraction of Florence's population was literate in 1472?
(a) One quarter.
(b) One half.
(c) One third.
(d) One fifth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early 1490s, Leonardo undertook the task of learning what language?

2. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?

3. What was the fate of Giacomo Andrea, the man who was a student of Vitruvius's works and was like a brother to Leonardo?

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

5. By age five, Leonardo lived primarily with whom?

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