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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. One reason Leonardo could not devise how to square a circle is that a mathematical process for squaring a circle cannot be done with just a compass and a ruler. Instead, it requires what type of number?
(a) Transcendental.
(b) Natural.
(c) Real.
(d) Rational.

2. How many years after Leonardo's birth was Galileo born?
(a) 112.
(b) 6.
(c) 50.
(d) 82.

3. When Donato Bramante was hired by Ludovico Sforza to remodel the dining hall of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, what painting was Leonardo hired to create on the dining hall's wall?
(a) The Last Supper.
(b) Salvator Mundi.
(c) The Mona Lisa.
(d) The Annunciation.

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

5. While the horse monument was never completed, Leonardo did complete a model of the monument out of what material?
(a) Papier mache.
(b) Plaster.
(c) Clay.
(d) Aluminum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rather than being a surname of Leonardo's, what does the phrase "da Vinci" indicate?

2. In the late years of what decade did Leonardo begin to devise contraptions that would enable human flight?

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

4. Lorenzo de' Medici, a great supporter of the arts in Florence, founded and funded Florence's first public what?

5. Leonardo's most serious longtime companion held the nickname of Salai, which held what meaning?

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