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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the function of the official known as a count palatine?
(a) To mediate local disputes between citizens.
(b) To award custody of children to non-related legal guardians.
(c) To enact the legal process of legitimizing children.
(d) To assess a child's ability to enter a particular trade.

2. 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?
(a) 200.
(b) 800.
(c) 400.
(d) 1,100.

3. Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering above his crib when he was an infant involved what type of bird?
(a) An osprey.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A kite.
(d) A bluebird.

4. In what year did Leonardo receive his first commission?
(a) 1460.
(b) 1492.
(c) 1478.
(d) 1452.

5. In what season of 1452 was Leonardo born?
(a) Summer.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

6. Leonardo's work entitled Codex Madrid I is largely devoted to the design of what?
(a) Irrigation techniques.
(b) River diversion techniques.
(c) More efficient machinery.
(d) A perpetual motion machine.

7. Lorenzo de' Medici, a great supporter of the arts in Florence, founded and funded Florence's first public what?
(a) Zoo.
(b) Library.
(c) Museum.
(d) Art studio.

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

9. 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) 18.
(c) 3.
(d) 10.

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

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

12. 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) Uccello.
(b) Mosca.
(c) Anatra.
(d) Tricheco.

13. How old was Salai when he came to live with Leonardo?
(a) 14.
(b) 21.
(c) 18.
(d) 10.

14. Tempera paints were used by artists in Italy prior to the arrival of oil painting. Oil painting came to Italy from what country?
(a) The Netherlands.
(b) Germany.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Switzerland.

15. What kind of organization was the Compagnia di San Luca that Leonardo joined in 1472?
(a) A co-op.
(b) A guild.
(c) A painters' fraternity.
(d) A religious organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the fate of Giacomo Andrea, the man who was a student of Vitruvius's works and was like a brother to Leonardo?

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

3. How many tons did Leonardo plan his horse monument to weigh upon its completion?

4. What position was held by legitimate first-born sons in Leonardo's family, stretching back at least five generations?

5. What was Leonardo's favorite branch of mathematics?

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