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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) 1,100.
(c) 800.
(d) 400.

3. How old was Leonardo's father Piero when he had a baby with Leonardo's 16-year-old mother?
(a) 36.
(b) 19.
(c) 24.
(d) 29.

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

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 syphilis.
(b) He was drawn and quartered by French troops.
(c) He was killed in battle.
(d) He died of old age.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the same year that Leonardo was born, Italy began a period of how many peaceful years without war?

2. By age five, Leonardo lived primarily with whom?

3. On what day of the week was Leonardo born?

4. How soon after Leonardo's birth did his father Piero marry Albiera, Leonardo's stepmother?

5. When Sigmund Freud wrote a short book psychoanalyzing Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering over his crib, Freud mistakenly analyzed the symbolism of what type of bird visiting Leonardo?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which branch of mathematics interested Leonardo above all others?

2. When Leonardo joined a competition of architects, what was the assigned task for the contest?

3. What occasion prompted Leonardo to paint The Last Supper?

4. What qualities of Leonardo's character are discussed as qualities that would have made him a misfit in any place besides Florence?

5. Discuss an example of Leonardo's use of analogies that led him to new scientific discoveries.

6. How did the books included in Leonardo's personal library inventory in 1492 represent the extreme diversity of his interests?

7. What were the main techniques Leonardo adopted from his mentor, Andrea del Verrocchio, that would go on to be featured prominently in all of Leonardo's later works?

8. What information was recently discovered in 2017 about Leonardo's birth mother?

9. What symbolism did Leonardo see in the reeds he included in his drawing of Pleasure and Pain?

10. What did Leonardo mean when he wrote, "He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-jar" (176)?

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