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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 item of clothing did Leonardo insist upon wearing, even though it was antithetical to the fashions of the time?
(a) Breeches.
(b) An ascot.
(c) A knee-length cloak.
(d) Cunibert shoes.

2. How was the model of Leonardo's horse monument destroyed in 1499?
(a) Heavy rains degraded its foundation.
(b) Vandals smashed it under cover of night.
(c) French archers used it for target practice.
(d) It burnt to the ground.

3. While Leonardo often drew and painted full-body male nudes, by contrast, almost all of the women he painted were what?
(a) Turned away from the viewer.
(b) Hiding their nakedness with their hair.
(c) Clothed and shown from the waist up.
(d) Clothed and shown from the waist down.

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

5. 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) Real.
(c) Rational.
(d) Transcendental.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo's work entitled Codex Madrid I is largely devoted to the design of what?

2. After collaborating with Leonardo on a particular painting, Andrea del Verrocchio, Verocchio was reportedly so awed by Leonardo's technique that he never completed another painting on his own. What was the title of the painting on which the two collaborated?

3. When Leonardo came upon a cave while hiking near Florence, what type of fossilized animal did he discover within the confines of the cave?

4. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?

5. What height did Leonardo plan his horse monument to reach once completed?

(see the answer key)

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