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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. In what year did Leonardo receive his first commission?
(a) 1452.
(b) 1478.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1460.

2. 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 was drawn and quartered by French troops.
(c) He died of syphilis.
(d) He died of old age.

3. In what year was Leonardo brought to Florence to live with his father?
(a) 1464.
(b) 1482.
(c) 1430.
(d) 1451.

4. How soon after Leonardo's birth did his father Piero marry Albiera, Leonardo's stepmother?
(a) One week after.
(b) Eight years after.
(c) Eight months after.
(d) Two years after.

5. What was the population of Florence in 1300 before the devastation caused by the Black Death?
(a) 140,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 80,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early 1490s, Leonardo undertook the task of learning what language?

2. Tempera paints were used by artists in Italy prior to the arrival of oil painting. Oil painting came to Italy from what country?

3. What family controlled the republic in place in Florence at the time of Leonardo's arrival in the city?

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

5. In whose honor was the horse monument intended to be created, with a sculpture of his likeness to be placed upon the back of the horse?

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