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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What height did Leonardo plan his horse monument to reach once completed?
(a) 51 feet.
(b) 14 feet.
(c) 20 feet.
(d) 23 feet.

3. Walter Isaacson states that Leonardo's Vitruvian Man perfectly symbolizes the ideal of what?
(a) Humanism.
(b) Science.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Aesthetic beauty.

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

5. What was the fate of Giacomo Andrea, the man who was a student of Vitruvius's works and was like a brother to Leonardo?
(a) He died of old age.
(b) He was killed in battle.
(c) He was drawn and quartered by French troops.
(d) He died of syphilis.

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

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 accused of sodomy?
(a) 400.
(b) 1,100.
(c) 200.
(d) 800.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What was different about Leonardo's drawings of machines than those of his contemporaries?
(a) Leonardo drew all of the different pieces of the machine separately.
(b) Leonardo's drawings were never shown to anyone.
(c) Leonardo's drawings were done using charcoal.
(d) Leonardo's drawings did not use color.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What item of clothing did Leonardo insist upon wearing, even though it was antithetical to the fashions of the time?

2. What was the name of Leonardo's mother?

3. What family controlled the republic in place in Florence at the time of Leonardo's arrival in the city?

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?

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

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