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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: The Nature of Man - Chapter 19: Personal Turmoil.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was pope when Leonardo was born?
(a) Alexander VI.
(b) Innocent VIII.
(c) Paul II.
(d) Pius II.

3. 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) Plaster.
(d) Aluminum.

4. 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 Henry II.
(b) King Henry IV.
(c) King Charles VIII.
(d) King Francis I.

5. How many other portraits of women had Leonardo completed prior to creating Lady with an Ermine?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Leonardo's father Piero when he had a baby with Leonardo's 16-year-old mother?

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. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?

5. What role did Leonardo inhabit upon his arrival to the court of Ludovico Sforza?

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