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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 was the first person to correctly depict what aspect of the human body?
(a) The heel bone.
(b) The frontal sinus.
(c) The valves of the heart.
(d) The joints.

2. One reason Leonardo could not devise how to square a circle is that a mathematical process for squaring a circle cannot be done with just a compass and a ruler. Instead, it requires what type of number?
(a) Real.
(b) Natural.
(c) Rational.
(d) Transcendental.

3. Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering above his crib when he was an infant involved what type of bird?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A kite.
(c) A bluebird.
(d) An osprey.

4. Pope Alexander VI was the first pope to perform what action?
(a) Get married.
(b) Recognize openly his illegitimate children.
(c) Excommunicate a heretic.
(d) Divorce his wife.

5. When Donato Bramante was hired by Ludovico Sforza to remodel the dining hall of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, what painting was Leonardo hired to create on the dining hall's wall?
(a) The Annunciation.
(b) The Mona Lisa.
(c) The Last Supper.
(d) Salvator Mundi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Leonardo's mother?

2. How many godparents gave witness to Leonardo's birth?

3. In what year was Leonardo brought to Florence to live with his father?

4. Isaacson writes that "No scientist before Leonardo had methodically shown how birds" (183) perform what action?

5. What fraction of Florence's population was literate in 1472?

(see the answer key)

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