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

2. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?
(a) Leonardo's maternal grandmother's.
(b) Leonardo's half-brother's.
(c) Leonardo's stepmother's.
(d) Leonardo's cousin's.

3. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?
(a) 39.
(b) 64.
(c) 212.
(d) 169.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer 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?

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

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. What item of clothing did Leonardo insist upon wearing, even though it was antithetical to the fashions of the time?

5. What was the function of the official known as a count palatine?

(see the answer key)

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