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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. What was the name of Leonardo's mother?
(a) Piera.
(b) Caterina.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Lucrezia.

2. What was different about Leonardo's drawings of machines than those of his contemporaries?
(a) Leonardo drew all of the different pieces of the machine separately.
(b) Leonardo's drawings were never shown to anyone.
(c) Leonardo's drawings were done using charcoal.
(d) Leonardo's drawings did not use color.

3. What book written by Luca Pacioli included 60 illustrations by Leonardo, the only drawings Leonardo ever published in his lifetime?
(a) On Geometry.
(b) On Architectural Design.
(c) On Divine Proportion.
(d) On the Five Regular Solids.

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

5. Leonardo was known to buy birds from the marketplace and do what with them?
(a) Use them in experiments.
(b) Breed them.
(c) Give them as gifts.
(d) Set them free.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which friend of Leonardo's developed the first widely-published system for double-entry bookkeeping?

2. How old was Leonardo when Salai came to live with him?

3. Which European city had the greatest percentage of literate citizens in 1472?

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

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

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