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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 family controlled the republic in place in Florence at the time of Leonardo's arrival in the city?
(a) The Medicis.
(b) The Orsinis.
(c) The Borgias.
(d) The Machiavellis.

2. 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) 3.
(b) 18.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

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

4. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?
(a) Breed them.
(b) Use them in experiments.
(c) Give them as gifts.
(d) Set them free.

5. Rather than being a surname of Leonardo's, what does the phrase "da Vinci" indicate?
(a) Leonardo's illegitimate status.
(b) Leonardo's status as his father's firstborn son.
(c) Leonardo's hailing from the town of Vinci.
(d) Leonardo's status as a polymath.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?

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

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

4. The commission of what art piece led to Leonardo's official appointment in the court of Ludovico Sforza and its accompanying salary and accommodations?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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