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

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

3. In what season of 1452 was Leonardo born?
(a) Spring.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

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

5. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?
(a) Leonardo's half-brother's.
(b) Leonardo's cousin's.
(c) Leonardo's maternal grandmother's.
(d) Leonardo's stepmother's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo's most serious longtime companion held the nickname of Salai, which held what meaning?

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

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

4. What is the term for the technique that uses contrasts of light and shadow in order to achieve the appearance of three dimensions in a two-dimensional work?

5. 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?

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