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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Personal Life - Chapter 13: Math.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position was held by legitimate first-born sons in Leonardo's family, stretching back at least five generations?
(a) Notary.
(b) Dentist.
(c) Tax collector.
(d) Banker.

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

3. What item of clothing did Leonardo insist upon wearing, even though it was antithetical to the fashions of the time?
(a) Breeches.
(b) An ascot.
(c) A knee-length cloak.
(d) Cunibert shoes.

4. 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) St. Jerome in the Wilderness.
(b) The Adoration of the Magi.
(c) Baptism of Christ.
(d) The Annunciation.

5. Isaacson writes that "No scientist before Leonardo had methodically shown how birds" (183) perform what action?
(a) Dive.
(b) Stay aloft.
(c) Land.
(d) Take off.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How many godparents gave witness to Leonardo's birth?

3. 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?

4. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?

5. Leonardo's work entitled Codex Madrid I is largely devoted to the design of what?

(see the answer key)

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