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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20: Florence Again - Chapter 25: Michelangelo and the Lost Battles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leonardo's work Madonna of the Yarnwinder was completed at the request of which courtier within the court of Louis XII?
(a) His secretary.
(b) His court jester.
(c) His treasurer.
(d) His scribe.

2. Leonardo believed that deep observation must be done in what manner?
(a) Quickly.
(b) Improvisationally.
(c) In a group.
(d) In steps.

3. When Leonardo went to Venice in 1500 in order to offer military advice to defend against a threatened invasion, which country was threatening to invade Venice?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Austria.
(c) Egypt.
(d) France.

4. During Savonarola's rule of Florence, a militia of what was organized to police the streets and to enforce moral righteousness?
(a) Monks.
(b) Clerics.
(c) Flagellants.
(d) Young boys.

5. What was the population of Florence when Leonardo moved there in 1464?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 40,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 60,000.

Short Answer 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?

2. The Florentine tradition known as disegno lineamentum used what to create forms and designs?

3. Leonardo believed that the secret to modeling three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface was not the use of lines, but instead the use of what?

4. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?

5. Walter Isaacson states that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man perfectly symbolizes the ideal of what?

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