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

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

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?
(a) Sfumato.
(b) Sgraffito.
(c) Glazing.
(d) Blocking.

4. What role did Leonardo inhabit upon his arrival to the court of Ludovico Sforza?
(a) An engineer.
(b) A fashion designer.
(c) A producer of pageants.
(d) A portraitist.

5. In what year was Leonardo brought to Florence to live with his father?
(a) 1451.
(b) 1464.
(c) 1482.
(d) 1430.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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?

4. What family controlled the republic in place in Florence at the time of Leonardo's arrival in the city?

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

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