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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. While Leonardo often drew and painted full-body male nudes, by contrast, almost all of the women he painted were what?
(a) Clothed and shown from the waist up.
(b) Turned away from the viewer.
(c) Hiding their nakedness with their hair.
(d) Clothed and shown from the waist down.

2. 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) St. Jerome in the Wilderness.
(d) The Annunciation.

3. By age five, Leonardo lived primarily with whom?
(a) His father and stepmother.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His birth mother and her husband.
(d) His grandfather Antonio and his wife.

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

5. Who was pope when Leonardo was born?
(a) Innocent VIII.
(b) Alexander VI.
(c) Paul II.
(d) Pius II.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What position was held by legitimate first-born sons in Leonardo's family, stretching back at least five generations?

3. Which European city had the greatest percentage of literate citizens in 1472?

4. Rather than being a surname of Leonardo's, what does the phrase "da Vinci" indicate?

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

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