1. Leonardo stated that what element has within itself an infinite number of movements?
(a) The leap of a gazelle.
(b) Running water.
(c) Blinks of an eye.
(d) Flowing air.

2. The four universal conditions of men, according to Leonardo, were mirth, weeping, fighting, and what?
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Labor.
(c) Misery.
(d) Anger.

3. How old was Francesco Melvi when he was adopted by Leonardo?
(a) 15.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 11.

4. Leonardo realized that waves do not actually move in what direction?
(a) Backward.
(b) Left.
(c) Forward.
(d) Right.

5. In what year did the friar Savonarola depose the Medici family and institute a fundamentalist regime in Florence?
(a) 1494.
(b) 1503.
(c) 1452.
(d) 1463.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Donato Bramante was hired by Ludovico Sforza to remodel the dining hall of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, what painting was Leonardo hired to create on the dining hall's wall?

2. Who used Cesare Borgia as a model of cleverness in his work The Prince?

3. Leonardo believed that deep observation must be done in what manner?

4. On what day of the week was Leonardo born?

5. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?

(see the answer key)

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