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

2. In what season of 1452 was Leonardo born?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Autumn.

3. In the same year that Leonardo was born, Italy began a period of how many peaceful years without war?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 90 years.
(c) 40 years.
(d) 20 years.

4. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?
(a) Clay.
(b) Plaster.
(c) Papier mache.
(d) Aluminum.

5. The squaring of a circle was a concept first discovered and discussed by what great thinker?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Hippocrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fraction of Florence's population was literate in 1472?

2. How was the model of Leonardo's horse monument destroyed in 1499?

3. Which friend of Leonardo's developed the first widely-published system for double-entry bookkeeping?

4. In what year did Leonardo receive his first commission?

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

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