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 grandfather Antonio and his wife.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His father and stepmother.
(d) His birth mother and her husband.

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

3. In what year was a great deal of information found and published about the identity of Leonardo's mother?
(a) 2017.
(b) 1592.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1860.

4. Lorenzo de' Medici, a great supporter of the arts in Florence, founded and funded Florence's first public what?
(a) Zoo.
(b) Art studio.
(c) Library.
(d) Museum.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sigmund Freud wrote a short book psychoanalyzing Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering over his crib, Freud mistakenly analyzed the symbolism of what type of bird visiting Leonardo?

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

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?

4. What fraction of Florence's population was literate in 1472?

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

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