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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role did Leonardo inhabit upon his arrival to the court of Ludovico Sforza?
(a) A portraitist.
(b) An engineer.
(c) A fashion designer.
(d) A producer of pageants.

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

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

4. What was the population of Florence in 1300 before the devastation caused by the Black Death?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 140,000.
(d) 50,000.

5. What is the term for the technique that uses contrasts of light and shadow in order to achieve the appearance of three dimensions in a two-dimensional work?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Staccato.
(c) Chiaroscuro.
(d) Stippling.

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

7. 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?
(a) 500.
(b) 120.
(c) 20.
(d) 60.

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

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

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

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

12. How was the model of Leonardo's horse monument destroyed in 1499?
(a) French archers used it for target practice.
(b) Vandals smashed it under cover of night.
(c) Heavy rains degraded its foundation.
(d) It burnt to the ground.

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

14. While Leonardo often drew and painted full-body male nudes, by contrast, almost all of the women he painted were what?
(a) Hiding their nakedness with their hair.
(b) Clothed and shown from the waist up.
(c) Turned away from the viewer.
(d) Clothed and shown from the waist down.

15. What was the name of Leonardo's mother?
(a) Antonia.
(b) Lucrezia.
(c) Piera.
(d) Caterina.

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 accused of sodomy?

2. In what year did Leonardo and Francesco travel to Pavia to observe and translate the manuscript of Vitruvius?

3. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?

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

5. How many godparents gave witness to Leonardo's birth?

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