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

2. Isaacson writes that "No scientist before Leonardo had methodically shown how birds" (183) perform what action?
(a) Land.
(b) Stay aloft.
(c) Dive.
(d) Take off.

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

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

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. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?

2. Leonardo's most serious longtime companion held the nickname of Salai, which held what meaning?

3. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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