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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) Banker.
(b) Notary.
(c) Tax collector.
(d) Dentist.

2. What was the function of the official known as a count palatine?
(a) To mediate local disputes between citizens.
(b) To enact the legal process of legitimizing children.
(c) To assess a child's ability to enter a particular trade.
(d) To award custody of children to non-related legal guardians.

3. 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 killed in battle.
(b) He died of old age.
(c) He was drawn and quartered by French troops.
(d) He died of syphilis.

4. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?
(a) 1462.
(b) 1498.
(c) 1490.
(d) 1477.

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) Glazing.
(b) Sfumato.
(c) Blocking.
(d) Sgraffito.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Leonardo's father Piero when he had a baby with Leonardo's 16-year-old mother?

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 convicted of sodomy and were sentenced to prison, exile, or death?

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

5. On what day of the week was Leonardo born?

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