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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 the early 1490s, Leonardo undertook the task of learning what language?
(a) Greek.
(b) Spanish.
(c) French.
(d) Latin.

2. What was the population of Florence when Leonardo moved there in 1464?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 40,000.

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

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

5. 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) Salvator Mundi.
(b) The Annunciation.
(c) The Last Supper.
(d) The Mona Lisa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Walter Isaacson states that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man perfectly symbolizes the ideal of what?

2. Rather than being a surname of Leonardo's, what does the phrase "da Vinci" indicate?

3. At one point Leonardo "listed the many practical applications that could come from harnessing the power of" (192) what river?

4. During the 70 years following the creation of The Officers of the Night in 1432, an average of how many men per year were accused of sodomy?

5. Who was pope when Leonardo was born?

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