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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 was the population of Florence when Leonardo moved there in 1464?
(a) 60,000.
(b) 40,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 20,000.
2. When Donato Bramante was hired by Ludovico Sforza to remodel the dining hall of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, what painting was Leonardo hired to create on the dining hall's wall?
(a) The Last Supper.
(b) Salvator Mundi.
(c) The Mona Lisa.
(d) The Annunciation.
3. 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 died of syphilis.
(c) He was drawn and quartered by French troops.
(d) He died of old age.
4. 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?
(a) The Annunciation.
(b) The Adoration of the Magi.
(c) Baptism of Christ.
(d) St. Jerome in the Wilderness.
5. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?
(a) Leonardo's maternal grandmother's.
(b) Leonardo's stepmother's.
(c) Leonardo's cousin's.
(d) Leonardo's half-brother's.
Short Answer Questions
1. While Leonardo often drew and painted full-body male nudes, by contrast, almost all of the women he painted were what?
2. At one point Leonardo "listed the many practical applications that could come from harnessing the power of" (192) what river?
3. In the late years of what decade did Leonardo begin to devise contraptions that would enable human flight?
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?
5. Tempera paints were used by artists in Italy prior to the arrival of oil painting. Oil painting came to Italy from what country?
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