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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. The Florentine tradition known as disegno lineamentum used what to create forms and designs?
(a) Circles.
(b) Shadows.
(c) Lines.
(d) Compasses.

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

3. Who used Cesare Borgia as a model of cleverness in his work The Prince?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Dante.
(c) Boccaccio.
(d) Machiavelli.

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

5. 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?
(a) 200.
(b) 1,100.
(c) 800.
(d) 400.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season of 1452 was Leonardo born?

2. When Leonardo moved back to Florence in 1500, in what type of location did he take up residence?

3. Leonardo first tackled the complexities of depicting shadows when drawing what kinds of objects during his training in Verrocchio's art studio?

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

5. When Leonardo made an inventory of clothes he had stored inside a trunk, whose clothes were listed as being intermingled with his own?

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