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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leonardo's most serious longtime companion held the nickname of Salai, which held what meaning?
(a) Divine One.
(b) Lover of the Arts.
(c) Little Devil.
(d) Prankster.

2. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?
(a) Use them in experiments.
(b) Give them as gifts.
(c) Set them free.
(d) Breed them.

3. Much of Leonardo's thinking regarding birds was gathered into a notebook now known as the Codex on the Flight of Birds. How many folios are present within that notebook?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 18.
(d) 10.

4. Leonardo wrote that, "Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without" (175) what two items?
(a) A compass and a rudder.
(b) A rudder and a spyglass.
(c) A map and a spyglass.
(d) A compass and a map.

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

6. What fraction of Florence's population was literate in 1472?
(a) One half.
(b) One third.
(c) One fifth.
(d) One quarter.

7. What term did Leonardo eventually use to describe the object he hoped would result in human flight due to the device's flapping wings?
(a) Tricheco.
(b) Mosca.
(c) Uccello.
(d) Anatra.

8. 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?
(a) Cesare Borgia.
(b) Ludovico Sforza.
(c) Duke Francesco.
(d) Pope Alexander VI.

9. How many years after Leonardo's birth was Galileo born?
(a) 82.
(b) 112.
(c) 50.
(d) 6.

10. In the same year that Leonardo was born, Italy began a period of how many peaceful years without war?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 90 years.
(d) 30 years.

11. In what year did Johannes Gutenberg begin selling Bibles created on his newly-invented printing press?
(a) 1348.
(b) 1489.
(c) 1501.
(d) 1452.

12. How many tons did Leonardo plan his horse monument to weigh upon its completion?
(a) 60.
(b) 75.
(c) 12.
(d) 24.

13. Isaacson writes that "No scientist before Leonardo had methodically shown how birds" (183) perform what action?
(a) Take off.
(b) Stay aloft.
(c) Land.
(d) Dive.

14. Leonardo's first studies of flight were completed as a means to create which type of art?
(a) Painting.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Drama.
(d) Storytelling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 70 years following the creation of The Officers of the Night in 1432, an average of how many men per year were convicted of sodomy and were sentenced to prison, exile, or death?

2. What was the population of Florence when Leonardo moved there in 1464?

3. Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering above his crib when he was an infant involved what type of bird?

4. In what year was a great deal of information found and published about the identity of Leonardo's mother?

5. 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?

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