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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Personal Life - Chapter 13: Math.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By age five, Leonardo lived primarily with whom?
(a) His birth mother and her husband.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His father and stepmother.
(d) His grandfather Antonio and his wife.

2. What book written by Luca Pacioli included 60 illustrations by Leonardo, the only drawings Leonardo ever published in his lifetime?
(a) On Geometry.
(b) On the Five Regular Solids.
(c) On Architectural Design.
(d) On Divine Proportion.

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

4. In the same year that Leonardo was born, Italy began a period of how many peaceful years without war?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 90 years.
(c) 40 years.
(d) 20 years.

5. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?
(a) Clay.
(b) Aluminum.
(c) Plaster.
(d) Papier mache.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after Leonardo's birth was Galileo born?

2. What is the term for the technique that uses contrasts of light and shadow in order to achieve the appearance of three dimensions in a two-dimensional work?

3. What is the term for the technique Leonardo invented that sought to blend shadows and lights so that no borders or lines were apparent?

4. Of what material was the horse monument to be made?

5. Leonardo's first studies of flight were completed as a means to create which type of art?

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