View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which friend of Leonardo's developed the first widely-published system for double-entry bookkeeping?
(a) Ludovico Sforza.
(b) Salai.
(c) Luca Pacioli.
(d) Corte Vecchia.

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

4. What was the population of Florence when Leonardo moved there in 1464?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 60,000.

5. 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) 20.
(b) 120.
(c) 60.
(d) 500.

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

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

8. 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?
(a) King Francis I.
(b) King Henry IV.
(c) King Charles VIII.
(d) King Henry II.

9. How many godparents gave witness to Leonardo's birth?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 20.

10. Leonardo believed that deep observation must be done in what manner?
(a) Improvisationally.
(b) In steps.
(c) In a group.
(d) Quickly.

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

12. In what year was a great deal of information found and published about the identity of Leonardo's mother?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1592.
(c) 1773.
(d) 2017.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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 is the term for the technique Leonardo invented that sought to blend shadows and lights so that no borders or lines were apparent?

5. Tempera paints were used by artists in Italy prior to the arrival of oil painting. Oil painting came to Italy from what country?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 481 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample