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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Personal Life - Chapter 13: Math.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the early 1490s, Leonardo undertook the task of learning what language?
(a) French.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Latin.
(d) Greek.

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

3. In what season of 1452 was Leonardo born?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Leonardo's favorite branch of mathematics?

2. At one point Leonardo "listed the many practical applications that could come from harnessing the power of" (192) what river?

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

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

5. Leonardo's memory of a bird hovering above his crib when he was an infant involved what type of bird?

(see the answer key)

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