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

2. How many godparents gave witness to Leonardo's birth?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

3. What was the population of Florence in 1300 before the devastation caused by the Black Death?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 140,000.

4. What fraction of Florence's population was literate in 1472?
(a) One quarter.
(b) One third.
(c) One fifth.
(d) One half.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the population of Florence when Leonardo moved there in 1464?

2. What is the term for the technique Leonardo invented that sought to blend shadows and lights so that no borders or lines were apparent?

3. 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?

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

5. What kind of organization was the Compagnia di San Luca that Leonardo joined in 1472?

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