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

2. By age five, Leonardo lived primarily with whom?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His grandfather Antonio and his wife.
(c) His father and stepmother.
(d) His birth mother and her husband.

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

4. What is the term for the technique that uses contrasts of light and shadow in order to achieve the appearance of three dimensions in a two-dimensional work?
(a) Staccato.
(b) Chiaroscuro.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Stippling.

5. What item of clothing did Leonardo insist upon wearing, even though it was antithetical to the fashions of the time?
(a) Cunibert shoes.
(b) A knee-length cloak.
(c) An ascot.
(d) Breeches.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What book written by Luca Pacioli included 60 illustrations by Leonardo, the only drawings Leonardo ever published in his lifetime?

3. 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?

4. In what year did Leonardo receive his first commission?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What language did Leonardo decide to teach himself in the early 1490s and what was the result?

2. What plan did Leonardo have for the casting of the horse monument that no one had ever attempted before?

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

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

5. The essayist Benedetto Dei wrote in 1972 that Florence "has all seven of the fundamental things a city requires for perfection" (26). What were the seven things he named?

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

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

8. What major difference does the author depict when comparing and contrasting Leonardo's personality with Leon Battista Alberti's personality?

9. In what way did Leonardo's illegitimacy grant him certain freedoms?

10. What is chiaroscuro and how did Leonardo employ it?

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