This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction: I Can Also Paint and Chapter 1: Childhood - Chapter 6: Court Entertainer.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tempera paints were used by artists in Italy prior to the arrival of oil painting. Oil painting came to Italy from what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) The Netherlands.
(d) Belgium.

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

4. What role did Leonardo inhabit upon his arrival to the court of Ludovico Sforza?
(a) An engineer.
(b) A fashion designer.
(c) A portraitist.
(d) A producer of pageants.

5. What was the population of Florence in 1300 before the devastation caused by the Black Death?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 140,000.
(d) 80,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What fraction of Florence's population was literate in 1472?

3. Homosexuality was so common in Renaissance Florence that what word became slang in Germany for gay?

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

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

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