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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. On what day of the week was Leonardo born?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Friday.

2. The commission of what art piece led to Leonardo's official appointment in the court of Ludovico Sforza and its accompanying salary and accommodations?
(a) A massive horse monument.
(b) The Last Supper.
(c) The spire of the Milan Cathedral.
(d) Lady with an Ermine.

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

4. The troops of which French king marched through Italy, putting a halt to Leonardo's creation of the horse monument, since his materials were needed to construct cannon?
(a) King Henry IV.
(b) King Henry II.
(c) King Charles VIII.
(d) King Francis I.

5. Throughout his life, Leonardo devised how many different formulas for squaring a circular shape?
(a) 39.
(b) 212.
(c) 64.
(d) 169.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for the technique Leonardo invented that sought to blend shadows and lights so that no borders or lines were apparent?

2. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?

3. How soon after Leonardo's birth did his father Piero marry Albiera, Leonardo's stepmother?

4. How many years after Leonardo's birth was Galileo born?

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

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