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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?
(a) Aluminum.
(b) Clay.
(c) Papier mache.
(d) Plaster.

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

10. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?
(a) Florette.
(b) Florenzer.
(c) Flor.
(d) Florencier.

11. What is the term for the technique Leonardo invented that sought to blend shadows and lights so that no borders or lines were apparent?
(a) Glazing.
(b) Sfumato.
(c) Blocking.
(d) Sgraffito.

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

13. When Leonardo came upon a cave while hiking near Florence, what type of fossilized animal did he discover within the confines of the cave?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A pterodactyl.
(c) A catfish.
(d) A whale.

14. Which European city had the greatest percentage of literate citizens in 1472?
(a) Milan.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Barcelona.
(d) Florence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Leonardo's most serious longtime companion held the nickname of Salai, which held what meaning?

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

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?

4. What was different about Leonardo's drawings of machines than those of his contemporaries?

5. The troops of which French king marched through Italy, putting a halt to Leonardo's creation of the horse monument, since his materials were needed to construct cannon?

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