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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. On what day of the week was Leonardo born?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Sunday.

2. What was the fate of Giacomo Andrea, the man who was a student of Vitruvius's works and was like a brother to Leonardo?
(a) He was drawn and quartered by French troops.
(b) He was killed in battle.
(c) He died of old age.
(d) He died of syphilis.

3. Much of Leonardo's thinking regarding birds was gathered into a notebook now known as the Codex on the Flight of Birds. How many folios are present within that notebook?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 18.

4. Who was pope when Leonardo was born?
(a) Pius II.
(b) Paul II.
(c) Alexander VI.
(d) Innocent VIII.

5. The troops of which French king marched through Italy, putting a halt to Leonardo's creation of the horse monument, since his materials were needed to construct cannon?
(a) King Henry II.
(b) King Henry IV.
(c) King Francis I.
(d) King Charles VIII.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was different about Leonardo's drawings of machines than those of his contemporaries?

2. What was the population of Florence in 1300 before the devastation caused by the Black Death?

3. What book written by Luca Pacioli included 60 illustrations by Leonardo, the only drawings Leonardo ever published in his lifetime?

4. Walter Isaacson states that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man perfectly symbolizes the ideal of what?

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

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