View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20: Florence Again - Chapter 25: Michelangelo and the Lost Battles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose work on shadows did Leonardo study?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sisyphus.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Archimedes.

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

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

4. Leonardo followed what type of restrictive diet throughout his life?
(a) Pescatarian.
(b) Pollotarian.
(c) Fruitarian.
(d) Vegetarian.

5. What type of paint did Leonardo use to create the work entitled Lady with an Ermine?
(a) Tempera.
(b) Oil.
(c) Watercolor.
(d) Lead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose death prompted Leonardo's father to bring him to Florence at twelve years old?

2. What kind of organization was the Compagnia di San Luca that Leonardo joined in 1472?

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

4. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?

5. How many illegitimate children did Pope Alexander VI have?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 192 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample