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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leonardo's work entitled Codex Madrid I is largely devoted to the design of what?
(a) More efficient machinery.
(b) Irrigation techniques.
(c) A perpetual motion machine.
(d) River diversion techniques.

2. In what season of 1452 was Leonardo born?
(a) Winter.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

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

4. 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 Architectural Design.
(c) On Divine Proportion.
(d) On the Five Regular Solids.

5. What position was held by legitimate first-born sons in Leonardo's family, stretching back at least five generations?
(a) Notary.
(b) Banker.
(c) Dentist.
(d) Tax collector.

6. 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 crane.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A starling.
(d) A vulture.

7. How old was Leonardo when Salai came to live with him?
(a) 21.
(b) 24.
(c) 50.
(d) 38.

8. In what year did Leonardo receive his first commission?
(a) 1492.
(b) 1460.
(c) 1478.
(d) 1452.

9. How many years after Leonardo's birth was Galileo born?
(a) 50.
(b) 6.
(c) 82.
(d) 112.

10. What was the name of Leonardo's mother?
(a) Lucrezia.
(b) Caterina.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Piera.

11. The troops of which French king marched through Italy, putting a halt to Leonardo's creation of the horse monument, since his materials were needed to construct cannon?
(a) King Henry IV.
(b) King Charles VIII.
(c) King Henry II.
(d) King Francis I.

12. While Leonardo often drew and painted full-body male nudes, by contrast, almost all of the women he painted were what?
(a) Clothed and shown from the waist up.
(b) Clothed and shown from the waist down.
(c) Turned away from the viewer.
(d) Hiding their nakedness with their hair.

13. 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) Duke Francesco.
(b) Ludovico Sforza.
(c) Pope Alexander VI.
(d) Cesare Borgia.

14. In the early 1490s, Leonardo undertook the task of learning what language?
(a) Greek.
(b) Spanish.
(c) French.
(d) Latin.

15. What is the term for the technique Leonardo invented that sought to blend shadows and lights so that no borders or lines were apparent?
(a) Glazing.
(b) Blocking.
(c) Sfumato.
(d) Sgraffito.

Short Answer Questions

1. How soon after Leonardo's birth did his father Piero marry Albiera, Leonardo's stepmother?

2. What was Leonardo's favorite branch of mathematics?

3. In what year was a great deal of information found and published about the identity of Leonardo's mother?

4. In what year did Johannes Gutenberg begin selling Bibles created on his newly-invented printing press?

5. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?

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