2. One reason Leonardo could not devise how to square a circle is that a mathematical process for squaring a circle cannot be done with just a compass and a ruler. Instead, it requires what type of number?
(a) Real.
(b) Natural.
(c) Rational.
(d) Transcendental.

3. During the 70 years following the creation of The Officers of the Night in 1432, an average of how many men per year were accused of sodomy?
(a) 200.
(b) 800.
(c) 1,100.
(d) 400.

4. What was different about Leonardo's drawings of machines than those of his contemporaries?
(a) Leonardo's drawings did not use color.
(b) Leonardo drew all of the different pieces of the machine separately.
(c) Leonardo's drawings were done using charcoal.
(d) Leonardo's drawings were never shown to anyone.

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

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. Leonardo's first studies of flight were completed as a means to create which type of art?

3. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?

4. In what year did Johannes Gutenberg begin selling Bibles created on his newly-invented printing press?

5. The squaring of a circle was a concept first discovered and discussed by what great thinker?

(see the answer key)

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