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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. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?
(a) Papier mache.
(b) Plaster.
(c) Clay.
(d) Aluminum.

2. How old was Leonardo when Salai came to live with him?
(a) 38.
(b) 21.
(c) 50.
(d) 24.

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

4. 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) Natural.
(b) Rational.
(c) Real.
(d) Transcendental.

5. What is the term for the technique Leonardo invented that sought to blend shadows and lights so that no borders or lines were apparent?
(a) Sgraffito.
(b) Blocking.
(c) Glazing.
(d) Sfumato.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the model of Leonardo's horse monument destroyed in 1499?

2. What was Leonardo's favorite branch of mathematics?

3. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?

4. What item of clothing did Leonardo insist upon wearing, even though it was antithetical to the fashions of the time?

5. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?

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