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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 kind of organization was the Compagnia di San Luca that Leonardo joined in 1472?
(a) A painters' fraternity.
(b) A religious organization.
(c) A co-op.
(d) A guild.

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

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

4. Leonardo followed what type of restrictive diet throughout his life?
(a) Pescatarian.
(b) Pollotarian.
(c) Fruitarian.
(d) Vegetarian.

5. What term did Leonardo eventually use to describe the object he hoped would result in human flight due to the device's flapping wings?
(a) Anatra.
(b) Uccello.
(c) Tricheco.
(d) Mosca.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late years of what decade did Leonardo begin to devise contraptions that would enable human flight?

2. In what year was Leonardo brought to Florence to live with his father?

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?

4. What was the population of Florence when Leonardo moved there in 1464?

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

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