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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. 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 Charles VIII.
(b) King Francis I.
(c) King Henry II.
(d) King Henry IV.

2. What was the fate of Giacomo Andrea, the man who was a student of Vitruvius's works and was like a brother to Leonardo?
(a) He died of syphilis.
(b) He died of old age.
(c) He was killed in battle.
(d) He was drawn and quartered by French troops.

3. During the 70 years following the creation of The Officers of the Night in 1432, an average of how many men per year were convicted of sodomy and were sentenced to prison, exile, or death?
(a) 500.
(b) 60.
(c) 120.
(d) 20.

4. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?
(a) Flor.
(b) Florencier.
(c) Florenzer.
(d) Florette.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did Leonardo inhabit upon his arrival to the court of Ludovico Sforza?

2. In the same year that Leonardo was born, Italy began a period of how many peaceful years without war?

3. In what season of 1452 was Leonardo born?

4. How was the model of Leonardo's horse monument destroyed in 1499?

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

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