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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction: I Can Also Paint and Chapter 1: Childhood - Chapter 6: Court Entertainer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the same year that Leonardo was born, Italy began a period of how many peaceful years without war?
(a) 90 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 40 years.
(d) 30 years.

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

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

4. Rather than being a surname of Leonardo's, what does the phrase "da Vinci" indicate?
(a) Leonardo's status as his father's firstborn son.
(b) Leonardo's illegitimate status.
(c) Leonardo's hailing from the town of Vinci.
(d) Leonardo's status as a polymath.

5. After collaborating with Leonardo on a particular painting, Andrea del Verrocchio, Verocchio was reportedly so awed by Leonardo's technique that he never completed another painting on his own. What was the title of the painting on which the two collaborated?
(a) The Adoration of the Magi.
(b) Baptism of Christ.
(c) The Annunciation.
(d) St. Jerome in the Wilderness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tempera paints were used by artists in Italy prior to the arrival of oil painting. Oil painting came to Italy from what country?

3. By age five, Leonardo lived primarily with whom?

4. How many godparents gave witness to Leonardo's birth?

5. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?

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